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.../time/images/covers/1101050912_160.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="209" border="0" In Time's September 12, 2005, issue, TIME published a 52-page special report on the Gulf Coast Disaster of 2005, including Amanda Ripley's report on what the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe said about America's rescue capabilities four years after 9/11...
...tall the 8 billion Web pages that Google once said it indexes would be if they were stacked pieces of paper. He quickly comes up with an answer, then keeps crunching numbers in his head as we discuss other issues. Finally, after recalculating his estimate for paper width, he blurts out: "500 miles." I ask Brin whether, as a kid, he used to play with numbers, adding digits, say, in the phone book. "No," he says. "That would be crazy...
...sake of comparison, a human hair is approximately 80,000 nanometers in width, according to the federal National Nanotechnology Initiative’s website...
...TWELVE J. Crew's Tie-of-the-Month club is the perfect answer to the holiday guy-gift conundrum. Recipients will get 12 new ties, one per month, starting in January. For $475 the assortment will include Cambridge ties made of English silk, above, as well as trendier, narrow-width ties in oxfords and plaids...
...Forget cosmetic changes like increased seat width?in the quest for more inflight space, why not do away with three-quarters of the passengers altogether? That seems to be the philosophy of Eos Airlines (eosairlines.com), the latest carrier on the North Atlantic route. Departing from London Stanstead, Eos's converted Boeing 757 aircraft carry just 48 passengers on the flight to New York (standard 757s hold over 200). These pampered few will dine on nouvelle cuisine and watch first-run movies on personal DVD players, while recumbent on fully flat, 78-inch-long beds. The bed is the centerpiece...