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Following obligatory youth-market duets with Britney Spears and 'N Sync, Jackson put on a sequined glove and sang his solo hits. It is hard to believe how easily the past 15 years of Wacko Jacko melt away when he sings and dances. Jackson's voice was noticeably lower, though agile enough to nail Billie Jean and Beat It. On the one new song he performed, You Rock My World, Jackson sounded very much like a contemporary Top 10 R.-and-B. artist, and his ability to work a crowd--not to mention, at 43, his dance moves--is still...
...planes were loaded with fuel for transcontinental flights, and that jet fuel ignited a hellish blaze that sent temperatures at the point of impact soaring to an estimated 2000 degrees F. Within an hour, the intense heat caused the seemingly invincible steel beams of the towers to melt like cotton candy. At 10 a.m. EST, the southern tower of the World Trade Center was enveloped in smoke after a second, gigantic explosion, and part of that tower collapsed and was destroyed. About twenty minutes later, the northern tower imploded. At 5 p.m. EST, weakened by the impact and heat...
...Pass trek is typical: the path snakes between the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal and ends by leading the walker down into the fearsome gorge of the mighty Sutlej River as it rushes down from Tibet. The hike can only be done in early summer after the snows melt and before the monsoon turns the mountains to mud. On the other side of the pass, trekkers must traverse a glacier after being linked together with ropes. We safely slid the last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks...
...Though his scheme was eventually shelved as too costly, it got Hajek - who today is head of the Center of Microwave Technology in Prague - thinking about using microwaves to melt glass for his country's renowned band of crystal producers. The system he devised, and which he refers to as the Microwave Art Glass Furnace, can now save glassmakers up to 50% in energy costs and spares the environment the nasty emissions produced by gas-fired furnaces...
...Glass is like ice," Hajek says. "If you put an ice cube in the microwave, it won't melt. The microwaves go right through it. But if there's as much as a drop of water on the ice, the drop will heat up and melt the whole cube." After two years of painstaking research and experimentation, Hajek identified a metallic compound - he won't say what it is - that functions like the drop of water on the ice cube. Hajek's compound kick-starts the melting process and can then be removed without a trace. "You need to know...