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...chief's literary ambition that prompted Bigam to examine the ribbon in Wiley's electric typewriter. And thereon lay a tale. Wiley had written someone a most revealing letter. "Where I've gone," he typed, "is of no critical importance and it's very doubtful that I'll ever return . . ." Just 16 days after the disappearance, Bigam issued the sort of announcement that might have been found in a whodunit by Agatha Christie (herself famous for a never explained ten-day absence in 1926). Wiley, said Bigam, had apparently "acted out the last chapter of his book . . . and rode...
...fired a laser beam 220 miles through space at a minute target, an 8-in. mirror attached to a hatch window on the left side of the space shuttle Discovery, which was speeding above the Hawaiian island at 17,500 m.p.h. The intention was to bounce the low-powered ribbon of light off the mirror and send it flashing back to Maui. But as the blue-green laser beam successfully "painted" the spacecraft over the test site, no reflection bounced back. Mission Commander Daniel Brandenstein stated the obvious: "We're not pointing at the ground...
FOOTNOTE: *The yellow ribbon was a symbol of longing for the return of the American hostages taken by Iran in 1979. It comes from Tony Orlando's 1973 hit pop tune, Tie a Yellow Ribbon (Round the Old Oak Tree), based on a story about the homecoming of a Civil War soldier from prison...
...records store sound in the form of tiny waves cut into vinyl grooves. When a diamond or sapphire stylus passes over them, its vibrations create a tiny electrical current that is converted back into sound. Tape players work in a similar way, reading sound from magnetized particles on plastic ribbon. Both methods involve a process known as analog recording, in which the music is represented as a physical replica, or analog, of the original sound. The chief drawback in each case is that the phonograph stylus or tape head rides constantly on the playing surface. This causes wear and distortion...
After congratulatory speeches and much ribbon-cutting, these four stations opened this past spring as part of the 3.2 mile MBTA northwest extension costing $574 million...