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...premise comes straight from the comic book: Professor Charles Xavier leads a group of superpowered mutants against the evil forces of Magneto, a mutant bent on destroying humanity. Amidst the persecution of a society that fears and hates them, the X-Men seek the allegiance of a new mutant named Wolverine, who must make a choice. Does he choose Xavier's idealistic dream of a peaceful co-existence between humanity and mutantkind, or does he opt for Magneto's vision of a world in which mutants replace humans on top of the evolutionary ladder? Translating a comic book onto...
...Ph.D, Prentiss was hired to work at AT&T Bell Laboratories by Steve Chu, who won the Nobel Prize this year. At Bell Laboratories, she directed the first demonstration of how shining laser light from all directions can confine atoms to the center of a magnetic field, the first Magneto Optical Trap...
DIED. PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER, 32, founder of the "X-men," a group of paranormally gifted, socially conscious mutants; of an accidental zapping by his son Legion during a shoot-out with archenemy Magneto; in Haifa, Israel. Adding to the tragedy is the fact that due to Legion's ability to travel through time, he killed his father 20 years in the past, thus creating an alternate reality in which the X-men don't exist...
...competition into playing catch-up for a long time to come. They have found a way to squeeze up to 45 billion bits of data onto a square inch of disk space -- 300 times as much as an ordinary disk, and 100 times as much as the most advanced magneto-optical technology. The system could put two copies of War and Peace on the head...
More important, it could provide a way to store moving pictures, which require large amounts of data, on conventional compact discs, to be played back by computers or on television sets. A palm-size disk could hold 17 hours of programming. It works like other magneto-optical disks: a laser heats and magnetizes the disk surface, then another laser reads the magnetized spots. But while current systems use lenses to focus the laser, this one funnels the light through an optical fiber that has been stretched 1,000 times as thin as a human hair -- a much tighter focus than...