Word: whizzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asteroid 1997 XF11 -- hardly a name to set the pulse racing -- will pass within 30,000 miles of us at 1:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, October 26, 2028 (set your watches now). Chances are it'll whizz past and give Europe -- then in darkness -- a pretty light show. "It would actually be a rather nice thing to see," says Dr. Brian Marsden of the International Astronomical Union. His colleagues aren't so sure. "This is the most dangerous one we've found so far," fretted Jack Hills of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "It scares me, it really does...
...YORK: Much is being made of the latest memory chip from those whizz-kids at Intel, unveiled to the world Wednesday. You know, the one that smashes through the innovation barrier known as Moore's Law, the one that promises to make memory technology obsolete every nine months instead of every eighteen ? which is the technological equivalent of running a two-minute mile. But does anyone really care? "The irony of this development," says TIME computer correspondent David Jackson, "is that consumers may not want or need it. As it stands now, the hottest new market in the industry...