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...because the head is very, very close to the platter surface--typically only one one-thousandth of an inch away--any physical shock to the hard disk could well cause the metal head to scratch over the platter surface and destroy whatever information that's stored in the path. Such damages are physical and therefore unrecoverable: your data is simply lost forever...
...quarks emerged from the primordial radiation "around a thousandth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang," estimates University of Michigan theorist Gordon Kane. But as the early universe expanded and cooled, they vanished. Their fleeting existence left behind a fundamental puzzle that physicists are struggling to solve: What makes some particles so massive while others -- photons, for example -- have no mass at all? Because of its boggling heft, the top quark should help illuminate what mysterious mechanisms -- including perhaps other, still weightier particles -- are responsible for imparting mass, and hence solidity, to the physical world...
There are many excellent performances in Man of La Mancha. Tony Martinez, who recently celebrated his two-thousandth performance as Sancho, is indeed a Sancho among Sanchos. He sings a charismatic version of the humorous "I Really Like Him." The Padre (David Wasson) gives a beautiful rendition of "To Each His Dulcinea," expressing unerringly the simplistic ideal of the show: "How lovely life would seem if every man could weave a dream to keep him from despair...
...name tag is as inviting as he is. "How are you today?" asks the man whose tag curiously reads, 'Wernher P.' And for about the thousandth time, his thick, French/Creole accent betraying his Haitian heritage, he inquires, "What would you like...
...vividly hued sign on the meter offers a sense of the impact of the coins, which go to La Amistad National Park in Costa Rica. Each hectare (2.5 acres) preserved, reads the sign, will save 500 butterflies, 200 orchids, 10,000 mushrooms, 20 frogs, half a parrot and a thousandth of a jaguar. The message seems to make a deep impression on budding environmentalists. "It's really neat," says Lily Lubin, 9, who persuaded her parents to part with some change. "It feels like every time I put a quarter in, I'm saving an animal's life...