Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expect to see a box-office smash online soon. Since movie files are so big, downloading is an option only for people on high-speed connections. Also, publicity is expensive--and even more necessary if the doors are thrown open to budding auteurs. Indeed, Scott Sander, president of SightSound.com says that in the month or so Cannibal has been up, fewer than 100 people have paid to see it. It seems that on the Net as well as off, there's just no accounting for taste...
...many behave like AT&T. The telecommunications giant has doled out $305,350 to the Democrats in the first six months of the year and an additional $527,050 to the Republicans, cozying up to both parties at a time when the company is battling over access to high-speed cable lines and other communications issues...
...that mine is all that great a risotto, but of all the bat catchers in St. Paul, I probably make as good a risotto as any of them. The secret, besides lavish administration of butter and cheese, is to rush the rice toward the finish line at high speed and then turn off the heat and coast across. My little girl thinks my risotto is more than good enough, but she is glad for everything we set before her. The chapter in the child manual on finicky eaters does not apply to her: she licks her chops the moment...
...million light-years away, however, they saw X rays not being emitted but being absorbed--the signature of ionized iron gas being drawn directly into the maw of the hole. The scientists knew the gas was on the move because its X rays were redshifted, stretched as their speed increased so that they moved toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum...
What impressed the research team was not just the fact that the gas was moving but how fast it was moving--6.5 million m.p.h., judging by the redshift. This is exactly the kind of searing speed a black hole ought to produce. While the Goddard scientists may not have the distinction of being the first to see a black hole itself, they are thus the first direct witnesses of its extraordinary power...