Word: tip
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Rashid was arrested in Athens in 1988 on a tip from U.S. officials who had assiduously tracked him down and gathered detailed evidence against him. But when Washington failed in its attempts to extradite him to stand trial in the U.S. for the midair bombing over Hawaii that killed a 16-year-old Japanese boy and injured 15 other passengers, officials feared that Greece might simply let Rashid go or acquit him. Now Rashid's lawyer is insisting that the Palestinian might be paroled in as little as seven years -- or even acquitted on appeal...
...first, Hughes was accidently knocked over by senior forward Tim Burke and couldn't get back into position. The other was a Ben Coughlin tip...
These shots heard, and seen, around the world appeared under the aegis of the first global TV news company, Cable News Network. Contrary to the dictum of former U.S. House Speaker Tip O'Neill that "all politics is local," CNN demonstrated that politics can be planetary, that ordinary people can take a deep interest in events remote from them in every way -- and can respond to reportage in global rather than purely nationalistic terms...
SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES. Invented only 10 years ago, these extraordinary instruments probe surfaces with a metallic tip only a few atoms wide. At very short distances, electrons can traverse the gap between the tip and the surface, a phenomenon known as tunneling. This generates a tiny current that can be used to move atoms and molecules around with pinpoint precision. Thus last year physicists from IBM's Almaden Research Center manipulated 35 xenon atoms on a nickel surface to spell out their company's logo. They have also fashioned seven atoms into a minuscule beaker in which they can observe...
...ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES. Like STMs, these instruments possess an atomically small tip that resembles a phonograph needle. An AFM reads a surface by touching it, tracing the outlines of individual atoms in much the same way a blind person reads Braille. Because the electromagnetic force applied by the tip is so small, an AFM can delicately probe a wide range of surfaces, including the membranes of living cells. Even more astounding, by applying slightly more pressure, scientists can use an AFM tip as a dissecting tool that lets them scrape off the top of cells without destroying their interior structures...