Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON--An error of about one millimeter--called "astonishing" by one expert for its large size--has been found in a measuring device used to guide the manufacture of a flawed mirror on the Hubble Space Telescope...
Taking a cue from Carroll, Keene read the map as a drawing of the British Isles with mirror images of towns outlined on opposite sides of a blank, gridless chessboard, which he took to be Ireland. Turning to the code, he concluded that WK meant white king, representing the police, that BQ (black queen) was the missing woman, and that BK (black king) was the suspect. Using these clues, Keene deduced that Theresa Terry must be buried in the Irish town of Limerick. His theory tallied with police discoveries that the suspect had hired a car and used credit cards...
...Hubble Space Telescope's devolution from Wonder of the Age to Blunder of the Century continued without letup last week. For one thing, the Associated Press reported that Perkin-Elmer Corp., which built the flawed mirror on the telescope, gave a subcontractor backward drawings for part of the telescope's guidance system -- forcing the prime contractor to pay the San Diego-based subcontractor, Composite Optics Inc., to rebuild it. Composite Optics reportedly made a tidy 63% profit...
...globe pop instantly onto home screens; computers and fax machines relay information in a flash. But anyone who thinks the media boom has created a nation of news junkies needs to readjust his antenna. A sobering new study titled The Age of Indifference, released last week by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press, reveals that young Americans are barely paying attention. The under-30 generation, it reports, "knows less, cares less and reads newspapers less" than any generation in the past five decades...
...Times Mirror study notes that the young audience has "buoyed the popularity of the new, lighter media forms," such as People magazine and TV's A Current Affair. The survey may give news executives a further excuse to soften and glitz up their products to try to woo the young. But that means walking a tricky tightrope: in trying to make the news more appetizing, they risk turning it into something other than the news...