Word: tinier
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...testers and I sampled other new phones, including the compact Sony D-Wave Zuma 100 ($299), the even tinier Motorola StarTAC ($199) and Nokia's 6190 ($199)--a Swiss Army knife of a thing that allows you to send and receive text and numeric messages, and offers a calendar, calculator and four computer games. (Our detailed review of each phone is at time.com...
Could there possibly be a tinier or more innocent-seeming measurement than the millijoule? The unit of energy denotes roughly the wallop packed by a dime dropped on a table from a height of 2 in. But as the National Transportation Safety Board revealed in hearings held in Baltimore last week, minuscule can mean sinister. Calmly, patiently, safety-board explosion expert Merritt Birky explained that a spark carrying one-quarter millijoule of energy was all that was necessary to ignite the contents of the 12,890-gal. central fuel tank of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 off Long Island...
...unnecessary blood loss from tests, and standard blood drawings are either reduced or eliminated altogether. And since an intensive-care patient during an average stay must part with close to a liter of blood for testing--much of it unused and thrown out--microanalyzers have been developed to scrutinize tinier quantities of blood...
...were quick to point out that her figures are anything but solid. The original trigger for Browner's proposal was a lawsuit brought by the American Lung Association. The suit accused the EPA of ignoring new scientific evidence showing that small particles in the air--bits of matter much tinier than the diameter of a human hair--are especially harmful to health. A federal judge ordered the agency to look at the evidence and, if the data warranted it, come up with new regulations...
Meanwhile, company sources happily volunteer the information that rap music represents only a small slice of Time Warner's total revenues: $85 million last year, about 2% of the $4 billion that the music division generates and an even tinier fraction of Time Warner's $15.9 billion in annual revenues. Translation: if the company were forced to scale back on rap, the bottom-line impact would be minimal...