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...Alamos National Laboratory: "It's as if you had a rope that was maybe 2 in. in diameter and 32,000 miles long, all neatly arranged inside a structure the size of a superdome. When the appropriate signal comes, you have to unwind the rope, which consists of two strands, and copy each strand so you end up with two new ropes that again have to fold up. The machinery to do that cannot be trivial...
...there a better way? In San Francisco in January, Energy Department scientists displayed a photograph of a DNA strand magnified a million times by a scanning tunneling microscope. It was the first direct image of the molecule. If sharper images can be made, the scientists suggested, it may be possible to read the genetic code directly. But that day seems very...
Kahane personifies the most zealous strand in Israeli politics. This week the high court will decide whether his ultra-extremist Kach Party can be banned from the ballot under a controversial new law that excludes parties deemed racist or antidemocratic. But in a campaign marked by mounting anger and violence, more and more voters are deciding that the proliferating splinter parties on both the extreme right and left offer something irresistible: a clear-cut, dramatic solution to the eleven-month-old Palestinian uprising...
Stewart and Tucci stayed at Rangoon's stately turn-of-the-century Strand Hotel, which was taken over by its workers after the turmoil began last month. The pair got to know the entire staff quickly: they were the only guests, the usual trickle of foreign tourists having vanished. Both men admit they owe a great debt to their hotel "family," who watched over their well-being by maintaining a vigilant security operation and scrounging for food for them. As one staff member told them, "If the police come here, we'll chop them...
...backbone of the system is a vast temporary network connecting 9,000 telephones and 250 computers. To handle the torrent of news and messages passing among the machines, the Democrats laid down 23 miles of fiber-optic cable, each strand of which can simultaneously carry thousands of digital signals. The flow of information will be managed by software from Novell, a Utah-based firm that specializes in getting machines of different makes to work together...