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...from afar has made the difference between defeat and victory in many a battle. In a Nova TV episode called Echoes of War, which was shown on the Public Broadcasting System last week, radar was hailed as the military's unsung hero of World War II. As physicist I.I. Rabi once recalled, "Maybe we could have won it without the atomic bomb . . . but without radar we could have lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Threats to The Old Magic | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

This general procedure was created initially by I.I. Rabi, a Nobel laureate who was Ramsey's Ph.D adviser at Columbia. Ramsey improved on Rabi's method by separating the oscillating field into two smaller fields, which increased the precision of the experiment and the accuracy of the measurement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Using Nuclei To Tell Time | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

...back of the eye. Within two seconds the retinal pattern, viewed by a camera, is compared with data in stored records. At American Airlines' underground computer center in Tulsa, a dozen eye scanners screen the retinal patterns of 500 employees. "People were afraid of it at first," says Hani Rabi, an engineering manager for the airline. "But now they feel very comfortable with the security it affords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting The Finger on Security | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

Many Palestinians are going back to the land. Nawal Rabi, 38, spends much of her day hacking out a garden behind her house in Jalazun. She is planting tomatoes, cucumbers and moloquia, an Arab green. With two brothers in jail and her father dead, Nawal struggles just to eat. In Sinjil, a West Bank village nearby, army roadblocks have cut off traffic for the past two months. Unable to drive to market, Hosneyah Khalil feeds her six children with the produce from her fields. She also has bought goats for milk. "We will show them we can live," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Day by Day with the Intifadeh | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...other "B" singles match, freshman John Cardi let two match points slip away and lost in the second round to Dartmouth's Jeff Hawkins, 7-6, 1-6, 5-7. Ken Hao and Rabi Soni each lost in the "C" quarterfinals to West Virginia players, and the "B" and "C" doubles teams fell in their first rounds of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Finish 4th at ECACs | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

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