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The Japanese maglev sits in a low, troughlike guideway, paved with two rows of metal boxes containing aluminum coils. Built into the car's undercarriage are six superconducting electromagnets. When one of them passes over an unmagnetized coil, a current -- and an accompanying magnetic field -- is induced in the coil...
The streets of Gaza were deserted last week as residents sullenly submitted to a host of new regulations. Outside the Jabalia refugee camp, under a blazing sun, thousands of men stood in a queue snaking between double rows of barbed wire to receive new identity cards. Without them, they cannot...
The act of kneeling and digging and weeding seems to have an equally salutary effect on the human spirit. "He who would have beautiful roses in his garden," wrote the great rosarian Samuel Reynolds Hole in 1869, "must have beautiful roses in his heart." To wait as long as three...
By the morning of Commencement, Tercentenary Theater will be carpeted with plush grass, lined with orderly rows of thousands of chairs and equipped with a sound system comparable to that of the Boston Garden. But the ostensibly simple and elegant organization belies the hectic planning and preparation that has strained...
The hotel ballroom near Chicago's O'Hare Airport is crammed with rows of banquet tables covered with paper chessboards. In silent confrontation, 700 miniature armies face one another across half as many checkered playing fields. The National Open, a major annual chess tournament, is about to begin. A short...