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Such antiquated ideas are going the way of the vibrating-band contraption our mothers once used to battle the bulge. Women are working those bodies as never before, and not so much to impress a man as to impress the person flexing in the mirror. "Working out is a way of life for me," says Lorri Sparks, 37, athletic director of New York City's Downtown Athletic Club. "Sometimes I'd rather work out with a man than even have sex." Not everyone adopts that hard-core approach, but many are sympathetic: they are women; they are getting strong...
...place for families and friends in thelocal area. With its dark wooden bar, bright brassrailings, and strong lighting, the place servesthose Southie residents who are doing well. Onesign near the bar reads "Parking for Irish Only:All others will be towed" in green lettering, andin the center of the mirror near the bar is agiant framed photo of the New Kids on the Block...
...first harsh light of revelation, news that the Hubble Space Telescope was flawed appeared to be an unmitigated disaster. Because the telescope's main light-focusing mirror had been precision ground to the wrong specifications, the U.S. had evidently spent $1.5 billion on an instrument that may never take the promised supersharp pictures of the heavens...
...best example of a shape-changing "active optics" mirror is the one in the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope in La Silla, Chile. Pistons attached to the thin mirror can flex it in and out until a star is as focused as possible. The NTT has already produced some of the sharpest images ever taken from the ground. A comparable system will be used in other projects, including the giant Keck Telescope under construction atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii...
Adaptive optics depends on taking starlight focused by a telescope's main mirrors and bouncing it off yet another mirror before studying the image. The additional mirror is made of a superflexible material -- plastic, in the Johns Hopkins device. A light sensor monitors a reference star within the telescope's field of view and looks for the shimmering caused by currents in the atmosphere. When the sensor detects disturbances, it sends signals to electrodes flanking the plastic mirror. The electrodes create electric fields that make the plastic bulge or dip, canceling out the flicker. Both the Hawaii and Johns Hopkins...