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...works like other magneto-optical disks: a laser heats and magnetizes the disk surface, then another laser reads the magnetized spots. But while current systems use lenses to focus the laser, this one funnels the light through an optical fiber that has been stretched 1,000 times as thin as a human hair -- a much tighter focus than a lens can achieve. The main stumbling block: the laser that reads these disks is too slow for commercial applications...
...stretching the copper-cored, shoelace-thin tether within the earth's magnetic field, NASA scientists expected to generate up to 5,000 volts of electricity. Ultimately, such tethers could not only power spacecraft but also secure counterweights that could be set spinning to create artificial gravity...
Kaus' plan is no blueprint for the rebuilding of American society. The evidence he accepts is reasonable but not rigorous. too anecdotal, too thin. And like utopians of the past, he pessimistically critiques the old politics while messianically exalting...
...voter rebellion that House minority whip Newt Gingrich helped foment bit back and drew some of Newt's own blood. The cantankerous seven-term Georgia Congressman won a nasty primary battle against little-known Herman Clark by a vapor-thin 980 votes out of 70,384. Clark painted Gingrich as the sort of check-bouncing, pay-raising incumbent voters love to unseat. Still, barring a massive collapse of Republican support in Atlanta's affluent northern suburbs, Gingrich is a good bet to win the general election this fall...
There is something almost otherworldly about the hazel-eyed Miller. Her ghostly paleness and thin frame give her a misleadingly fragile appearance. She conveys a sense that she doesn't speak unless spoken to; her favorite answer is, "I don't know." When working out, she constantly looks as if she might break into tears. It was that very look that initially attracted the attention of Steve Nunno in 1986 when both were visiting a gymnastics camp in the Soviet Union. "Shannon was trying so hard and getting extremely frustrated," he recalls. "I felt, There...