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...resemblance was almost comical. A few large impact craters, and hundreds of tiny ones, were scattered at random over its charcoal-gray surface. There were no visual clues to give any sense of scale, but Singh knew its dimensions by heart: 1,295 m maximum length, 456 m minimum width. Kali would fit easily into many city parks...
...familiar qwerty key arrangement (named after the first six keys in the top left row of letters) and try to shape it into a more ergonomic form. A keyboard made by Kinesis Corp. in Bellevue, Washington, moves the keys into two saucer-size wells about a hand's width apart, relocating hard-to-reach function keys and providing more support for the wrists. The TONY! keyboard, designed by Anthony Hodges in Mountain View, California, is hinged in the middle, between g and h, so that the hands can meet the keys in a more natural, thumbs-up position. The Comfort...
...femtoseconds, which are millionths of a billionth of a second. How fast is that? Well, in little more than a second, light can travel all the way from the moon to the earth, but in a femtosecond it traverses a distance that is but one hundredth the width of a human hair. "This sort of time scale is almost impossible to imagine," exclaims L.B.L. director Charles Shank, who helped pioneer the technology...
...nation is still searching for its soul in Mississippi's Delta. Thirty years ago, blacks risked their lives if they tried to vote. Today there are 28 black mayors in the Delta, an area about 200 miles top to bottom and 85 miles at its greatest width, with 340,000 people, 55% black. There are black sheriffs, police chiefs, city-council and county-board majorities. Just across the tracks from Henry's store is the office of Henry Espy, black mayor of Clarksdale, at 20,000 the upper Delta's largest city. "I am convinced the South is the promised...
...mounted on airplanes, can detect increases in sulfur-dioxide emissions, indicating that magma has reached the surface. In addition, the physical swelling of mountain slopes, well documented at Mount St. Helens, is a sign of explosive potential. Laser-based devices can pick up minute bulges that are about the width of a nickel and still invisible to the naked eye. In Japan researchers have set up video cameras to monitor the shape and color of fumes at 19 of the country's most worrisome volcanoes...