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...recent Smithsonian Institution Research Reports, Walsworth explained how difficult it was to detect the dipole, saying that if one were to blow up an the size of the Earth, the xenon dipole wouldamount to less than the width of a human hair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Focus | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

...what parts! Walton attached rows of Victorian houses to both ends of the Paramount stage (already double the width of the standard Broadway stage) so that it seems to embrace the audience. And everywhere there is wonder to behold: Jacob Marley's huge skull glowering on the facade of Scrooge's house, sets that open and fold like mammoth pop-up Christmas cards, a spider web of gold chains on which Scrooge is crucified by remorseful ghosts, a tombstone that forces him into the rising fires of hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Like New York in Yule | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...process data efficiently. Any such progress in speed is a boon for those trying to get video, pictures and the other ingredients of multimedia up and running on the info highway. The consortium of IBM, AT&T, Motorola and Loral intends to produce a chip about half the width of those used currently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CHIP THAT REALLY CRUNCHES | 7/27/1994 | See Source »

...researchers measured the ratio of facial width across the cheek bones to the height of the face, according to an article in the Cambridge Chronicle. The results, now under review, are based on fourteen years of research and observation of more than 600 Massachusetts children between the ages of four months and 13 years...

Author: By Laurie A. Sheflin, | Title: Research Links Narrow Faces to Shyness | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

...reason for the correlation between narrow face width and shyness is unclear. High levels of the stress hormone cortisol may affect both timidity and facial shape, Arcus said. Stress to the fetus in the maternal uterine and hereditary factors are other potential causes...

Author: By Laurie A. Sheflin, | Title: Research Links Narrow Faces to Shyness | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

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