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Considering that the cable-TV industry is just emerging from an advertising slump and that only a few hundred thousand cable viewers tune in to HDTV, it's a risky bet. But it's the kind that Hendricks has always relished making. A laid-back, soft-spoken Southerner who first became interested in documentaries when ordering them for his professors at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Hendricks "is a schoolteacher at heart," says John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, a principal shareholder of Discovery, along with Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications. "Like Ted Turner," Malone says, "Hendricks...
...thousand actors. Thirty-five rooms of The Hermitage museum. One single 95-minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous Steady-Cam shot. And a mad genius for a director, bent on making—and remaking—Russian history. Were it not so exquisitely beautiful, Russian Ark, the latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov, might pale in comparison to the epic story of its own production...
Ordinarily a row of 10 bits (think of them as tiny switches turned on or off) can hold any one of a thousand different numbers (1,024 to be exact). But a row of 10 qubits, because of its quantum nature, can hold all the numbers at once. To find the square root of every number from 1 to 1,000, you would load them all onto a row of 10 atoms, perform a single calculation, and--voila--all the answers would appear...
...cosmologists won't be sitting around waiting. "You're going to see a thousand papers based on these results," says Tegmark, who is already working on several. "It's an exciting time to be in this field...
...sliced in half the fat and cholesterol in most recipes, says program head Elizabeth Painter. Oil in banana cake was replaced with applesauce; butter in brownies, with pureed prunes. Some recipes had to be abandoned, like perch filets breaded with crushed potato chips, doused in melted cheddar cheese and Thousand Island dressing. "That," says Painter, "is just gross." Now catfish is rolled around spinach and glazed with red-pepper sauce. The menu also features healthier grab-and-go meals like lime-chicken wraps to better compete with off-base Taco Bell and McDonald...