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...dominance fade. Kodak spent much of the year preparing to invade the booming $9 billion market for home-video equipment. This week the company will launch its first attack, introducing a self-contained camera-videotape recorder that runs on narrow, 8-mm tape. The device will be smaller, lighter and easier to carry than most items now on the market, which use wider tape. Says Eugene Glazer, a leading photo-industry analyst for Dean Witter: "The new products are going to be very, very important. Small color-video-camera recorders will be the next big wave in consumer electronics...
...glow was getting lighter, and you could barely see the outline of Harkness Tower, but it was still very dark and it was still very, very quiet in New Haven, and it seemed we had been sitting there for an hour when the white car pulled into the parking lot, and our friend Amy got out, and after her, a police officer...
...Wipers that sense rain on the windshield and also adjust their speed automatically to heavier or lighter rain...
...Fowler, together with three colleagues, Sir Fred Hoyle and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, provided the answer. In exquisite detail, they showed how the stellar furnaces forge progressively heavier atoms out of lighter ones. They provided a number of pathways for the fusion reactions, including one in which a giant star eventually explodes in a super nova and unleashes forces powerful enough to create the heaviest known naturally occurring elements such as uranium. Fowler subsequently refined these ideas so he could predict exactly what ele ments would be found in a particular type of star. These predictions have been al most...
...western star. Enter You-Know-Who. Country Rocky soon learns how to belt it out not in the ring but on the stage. Off the set, Parton says she has been learning a few things from her health-conscious costar. After a stern summer of dieting, she is lighter by 26 pounds. Says Parton: "Hanging around with him makes it easier for me to stay away from Velveeta and Wonder bread...