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Length 172 ft. 275 ft. Width 41 ft. 38 ft., 6 in. Draft, loaded 10 ft. 6 in. 22 to 23 ft. Speed 8 knots 9 knots Armament Two 11-in. cannons 10 to 12 total cannons...
...software. Companies are poking and prodding the fundamentals of the physical world. They are slinking down from the micron scale (one-millionth of a meter) to what is known as the nano scale, inhabited by devices that are less than 100 nanometers wide, or less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair...
...standards of most 24-story buildings, the new Austrian Cultural Forum, which opens this week in New York City, occupies a space the size of a pipe cleaner. In a plot just 25 ft. across, the width of the town house it replaces, Austria's state-sponsored cultural outpost holds a library, galleries, offices and a mini-theater, plus an apartment for the Forum's director. But its real miracle is to squeeze more visual cunning and brainy pleasure into a small space than you can find in whole blocks of dreary office cartons--that is to say, most...
Albert Einstein stood common sense on its head when he proclaimed time to be just another dimension, like height, width and depth, and went on to declare that it can be stretched and warped like taffy. But that notion is much too mundane for Julian Barbour. According to the 64-year-old British physicist, there's no point in trying to describe time, because it simply doesn't exist. "The passage of time," he says, "is simply an illusion created by our brains...
...Thanks largely to the All-American caliber goalkeeping of sophomore Katie Zacarian, Harvard (4-4, 2-0 Ivy) took No. 3 Michigan (10-2) to overtime on Sunday afternoon and came a goalpost’s width away from stealing the game in regulation. But Michigan senior Catherine Foreman, a back from Australia, beat Zacarian from the top of the circle just two minutes into 7-on-7 play to lift the Wolverines to a 2-1 victory...