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...rather stocky man. I never saw his face, of course, was not allowed to, but my biggest impression is of his hands. He has big, thick hands, and he's paunchy. He would come in, and he'd take my hand, and he'd say, "Essalamu alaykum ((Peace be with you))." I'd say, "Wa alaykum essalam, Haj." He'd say, "Keef halak...
Since the first videophone was unveiled at the New York World's Fair in 1964, doctors have dreamed of healing by wire. But the reality of transmitting a detailed picture over a 1-mm-thick (.04 in.) copper cable proved elusive. Then in the 1980s engineers working with a technique called digital signal compression managed to boost the data-carrying capacity of ordinary phone lines 30-fold...
...punishment." But under Chief Justice William Rehnquist's leadership, the Supreme Court seems more concerned with finality than fairness. Frustrated by the mounds of habeas corpus petitions that clog federal dockets -- Coleman's current petition, which includes the Commonwealth of Virginia's rebuttal, is more than 4 1/2 in. thick -- the court has sharply curtailed the ability of state prisoners, including capital felons, to approach federal courts with challenges to their convictions or sentences. "It is not clear to me what, if anything, will allow you to have a hearing in federal court as a matter of right," says Bryan...
...community college incident was anothercontroversy with Counter in the thick...
...systems and more on vitreous wizardry. The 10-ton mirror he and his colleagues plan to install in Arizona -- merely a warm-up for some 8-m versions -- boasts a light-collecting surface that is nearly as wide as a house is tall, yet it averages only 2.8 cm thick. What prevents this marvel from fracturing under its own weight is a supporting truss composed of thousands of glass ribs that are cast as part of the mirror's underlying structure. Arrayed in a striking hexagonal pattern, the ribs form an airy honeycomb that confers on the mirror the structural...