Word: palmed
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...fateful chain reaction, seismologists believe, started in April, when an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude rattled the vicinity of Palm Springs and Joshua Tree National Monument. On a map, the fault that was then broken looks like a shotgun taking dead aim at Landers, and in fact it was. Two months later, a minor earthquake started on a fault with no name. For a few seconds, this temblor rattled at a magnitude of 3. Suddenly, seismometer readings soared as the fracture unzipped a sequence of larger faults nearby. Then three hours after the Landers earthquake shivered to a stop...
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...
Sulzberger sent another signal of his openness just after the paper ran a now notorious piece describing the wild streak of the alleged victim in the Palm Beach rape case. Many reporters, Quindlen says, thought she was nuts to write a column saying that the article was beneath the Times's standards. But, she recalls, "the next time I saw Arthur in the newsroom, he came up to me and, in a loud voice, told me that he was proud that I had spoken...
...Florida, the Sunshine State, home of citrus fruit, Walt Disney World and fabulous beaches and palm trees, casts 65 votes for the next president of the United States of America, Our Next President...
...that we are far away from the nearest village and the temptations of < palm wine, the Pygmies begin to come into their own. Even with 14 years' experience, Fay can still lose a trail, but Ndokanda, a former elephant hunter, or any of the other Pygmies can read the very faintest imprint with a glance. In the forest they are utterly self-reliant, creating cord from vines, cups from leaves and bed mats from bark. Still, they are apprehensive about this forest, and when Fay tells them where we are going, Samory says, "Mokele Mbembe lives there." Fay is convinced...