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Even though scientists expect this month's peak display of Leonids to occur over China, Japan and Southeast Asia--during daylight hours in the U.S.--J.P.L.'s Yeomans suggests that Americans who are curious should scan the early morning skies on both Nov. 17 and Nov. 18. They will certainly see some meteors, he says, and the vagaries of the meteor stream may just present them with a good show. Anyway, he says, celestial circumstances make it unlikely the Leonids will perform much in the next 100 years or so. "Do it now or next November," he urges, "or write...
...only thing remarkable about the discovery is that I found the comet during the very first scan of the sky the first clear night after our summer monsoons ended," Tucker says...
...asked what the brain was doing differently during experiences which were remembered," Wagner says. "The scan showed greater activation in the left frontal and left temporal region when people paid attention to the semantic meaning of words...
...full-blown security crisis for Netscape and everyone who owns its browsers. As Brumleve demonstrates on his web page, it is possible to download a short, 30-line javascript program that will snatch information from a Netscape user's hard drive. Specifically, the flaw allows web sites to scan your cache without setting a cookie -- in other words, make off with a list of all those places, naughty and nice, where you've been surfing...
Many gadgets make it easy to send e-mail on the road, but scanning and faxing a document are trickier. Hewlett-Packard has a new handheld device that can scan and store up to 50 pages of text. Unlike most scanners, the CapShare 910 ($700, available in December) uses a wireless infrared port to transmit the scanned pages to some notebook computers, which can then be used to fax or e-mail the text. While the lightweight CapShare is easy to use, its reliance on infrared connections could limit its appeal...