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...once took half a dozen or more vacuum tubes, crammed into a bulky cabinet, to make an ordinary household radio. Today, postage-stamp-size electronic "chips," or integrated circuits, contain all the parts needed for far more complex electronic devices ranging from pocket calculators to missile guidance systems. But even these miracles of miniaturization may look gargantuan alongside the circuitry of the future. Scientists are now talking about turning individual molecules into electronic components...
...start, they are trying to make a rectifier, a simple device for changing the periodically reversing flow of electrons in alternating current (AC) into the one-way flow of direct current (DC). Like the cathode in ordinary vacuum tubes, one end of the molecular rectifier would act as a donor of electrons because it would be made out of a molecule that had a lower binding energy. The other end, carrying a higher binding energy, would serve as an anode, or electron acceptor. Thus, if an external alternating voltage were applied, the large molecule would act as a rectifier...
Assume that they could do the impossible and get the thing into orbit between the earth and the moon. In the vacuum of space, what would the tremendous pulling power of the black hole do to the moon and its effects on our tides? What if the black hole crashed into the earth's surface because of the pull of the earth's gravity? If they tamper with the forces of nature in space, they might destroy...
...honors. But if everything goes as planned, it appears that the Mets will give it their usual slow start and then catapult into first place during the final weeks of the season. However, if Yogi's battalion falters, look for the Cards to slide into the New York power vacuum...
...picking up fragments of stained glass from ruined churches, buying works of art was his obsession. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, rare drawings, incunabula (literally, things from the cradle, or books printed before 1501), bookbindings, historical documents and letters-these poured into his vaults, sucked from Europe as by a vacuum cleaner by the limitless power of his funds. After 1906 the collection was housed in the Morgan Library, a Manhattan palazzo designed by McKim, Mead & White that is itself a masterpiece of American Renaissance Revival architecture. After Morgan died in 1913, the buying went on under the direction of Belle...