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...fragile or clumsy. And workable future alternatives based on nanotechnology and holograms have so far failed to materialize. So Cornice Inc. of Colorado is trying to perfect a technology based on the standard hard drive, which has been around the computer business for nearly a half-century. Cornice has shrunk the drive, normally about 10.2 cm by 14.6 cm by 2.5 cm in a standard computer, to a cell phone?friendly 3.6 cm by 4.3 cm by 0.5cm. It removed a lot of the supporting electronic chips, transferring tasks like disc-speed control and memory buffering to other chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Future Focus | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...study released last week. After four years of intensive research by more than 250 scientists, a prestigious multinational body called the Arctic Council reported that the region has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the globe over the past 50 years. Arctic Ocean ice has shrunk by as much as 20%, snow cover has diminished on land, and the permafrost underlying the tundra has become less stable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meltdown! | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...consent that other college students are missing,” Kelly says. “People [in BDSM] relationships talk beforehand. They can even have written and notarized contracts about what they will and will not do. Each and every step is detailed. They set boundaries that can be shrunk at any time for any reason, which is just insanely good...

Author: By Kevin J. Feeney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sadomasochism Comes Out of the Closet | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...number of economics concentrators in the College shrunk slightly last year, though it had increased each year from 1999 to 2002, according to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Handbook for Students...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: As Options Increase, Ec 10 Enrollment Declines | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...number of economics concentrators in the College shrunk slightly last year, though it had increased each year from 1999 to 2002, according to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Handbook for Students...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: As Options Increase, Ec 10 Enrollment Declines | 10/13/2004 | See Source »

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