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...says Times Square has lost its famous gaudy sparkle? At 11:53 p.m. on New Year's Eve, Coca-Cola flipped on the switch to launch its contribution to Broadway's born-again glitz: a $3 million, 55-ton billboard featuring a four- story Coke bottle made of fiber glass. A high-tech version of the Coke sign that has reigned in various Times Square locations for 75 years, the billboard contains a mile of neon tubing, 60 miles of optical fiber and more than 13,000 incandescent light bulbs. Controlled by a robotic animation system, the giant bottle pops...
...atom responds most readily to a particular frequency. For the cesium-133 atoms in most atomic clocks, the frequency is 9,192,631,770 vibrations per second. When a microwave beam inside the clock is set to that frequency, the maximum number of atoms will undergo the energy switch, signaling the clock's internal computer that the device is correctly tuned. The vibrating microwaves keep time; the atoms just keep them on track...
While Hands enjoyed his GLI memories, he said he wouldn't switch places with the players...
...half-hour break arrives on schedule, but Anderson does not. "Come on," mutters Furnad, "it's gotta happen before 4 o'clock." On the air, reporter Charles Jaco is killing time by talking to a legal expert. Finally Anderson / appears. Furnad shifts into overdrive: a switch back to Atlanta anchor Lou Waters; a shot of Anderson arriving; a split screen showing Anderson's Associated Press colleagues in New York City; a phone interview with John Anderson, Terry's brother...
...socialist system and prosperity to the country. Instead, as he admitted last week, "the old system fell apart even before the new system began to work." In fact, there was no new system. In September 1990 he announced he favored the so-called 500-Day Plan for a sudden switch to a free-market system. But then he lost his nerve and reneged, opting for a "compromise" between dramatic change and another round of tentative tinkering with the gargantuan central-planning apparatus...