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...frame glasses used to watch old-style 3-D movies, the eyewear creates a stereoscopic effect by using lenses filled with liquid-crystal diodes, the same material that forms the numerals on the face of a digital wristwatch. When jolted by an electrical current, an LCD lens can instantly switch from being essentially transparent to being totally opaque -- like an efficient electronic shutter. Controlled by an infrared signal broadcast from the projection booth, the goggles' left and right lenses open and close 24 times a second, in synchronization with a pair of Imax projectors showing first the left-eye view...
...1980s the knockout blow was typically delivered in a high-stakes takeover battle, with much fancy legal footwork and powerhouse debt financing. But in recent months the collapse of the junk-bond market and the passage of anti-takeover laws in more than 30 states have forced a switch in tactics. Now the savviest challengers are clambering back into the ring with an old-fashioned approach to kayoing corporate management. The new arena: the annual stockholders' meeting. The main event: the proxy fight...
...Northeast. The rest of the country is quickly catching up. Business is brisk at Diapers Unlimited of Kalamazoo, Mich., which is expanding its rural routes. So far, better-educated families have been the most likely to sign up with a service, while less informed parents have been slow to switch...
...soda can and with a sticker price of about $200, a capacitor hardly appears lethal. Its industrial applications range from use in copier machines to air-conditioning units to aerospace equipment. But take a highly miniaturized capacitor capable of storing 5,000 volts, feed it into a peanut- size switch called a krytron, and the result is a device that can be used for the deadliest purpose of all: triggering a nuclear explosion...
...Well, if I said it, it's probably true. The Government is spending unconscionable amounts of money, they switch law firms like you switch coffee cups. Their whole purpose is to break us so we can't be heard. Their theory is a dead man tells no tales. It's no wonder nobody speaks up. They're afraid of going to jail. They're afraid of going more broke. And the Government's doing a fantastic job of making an example out of me for everybody else to shut up. These other owners would rather give away their savings...