Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them so that it can be a legitimate player on the international stage, a nation fully in control of its own military destiny. So, as its entrepreneurs have embraced StarTacs and Yahoo!, Beijing's generals now want to trade their antique weaponry and cold war tactics for the PlayStation power they see in NATO's arsenal...
...with annual revenues of almost $2 billion. Moffett himself is an F.O.S., or friend of Suharto, the ousted dictator of Indonesia, a country that is now a fuse in search of a match. An often violent election campaign leads up to voting on June 7 that could bring to power reformers long critical of Freeport...
...they need our help. The universe, after all, is a very noisy place. It takes a lot of raw computing power to find the wheat in all that extraterrestrial chaff, and with budget cuts and all, SETI can't afford the computers it needs to do the job. That's where your humble home (or office) PC comes in. Download its software over the Internet, and SETI central at Berkeley will send chunks of data for your machine to process. Amateur astro-geeks everywhere are pitching in. In the two weeks SETI@home has been available, more than...
...most elegant displays of the power of the Internet to be harnessed for what experts call distributed computing. "The largest supercomputer you can buy has 9,000 Pentium processors in it," says SETI@home director David Anderson. If everyone who has downloaded his program uses it, he points out, "we have what's equivalent to a box with 400,000 Pentiums...
Teach your kids that sex isn't just about plumbing and procreation, that sex is about relationships and power struggles and the gray area between yes and no. Children need to have a strong internal compass as they mature, because the terrain will keep shifting until they're old like us. And then it will shift some more...