Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nowhere is this more evident than in Phong Saly province, a remote region that juts into southern China. There, the Pa thet Lao have set up prison camps for "enemies of the state" that seem like something out of Solzhenitsyn: their heavy log walls are covered with barbed wire and bordered with sharp bamboo stakes; beyond, there is nothing but dense jungle and forbidding mountains. "You can try to escape," the guards taunt their charges, "but we'll have you back here within seven days...
...integrated circuits (ICs) drastically reduced the size, cost and electrical drain of any equipment in which they were used. One immediate byproduct: a new generation of small, desk-size minicomputers as well as larger, high-speed machines. Their speed resided in the rate at which electric current races through wire: about one foot per billionth of a second, close to the velocity of light. Even so, an electrical pulse required a significant fraction of a second to move through the miles of wiring in the early, large computers. Now even circuitous routes through IC chips could be measured in inches...
...seven rounds, Spinks made the fight go while Ali played bystander. Then Ali scored in the middle rounds, working an especially-strong right-left combination through rounds nine, 10 and 11. Ali danced, Spinks punched, and when it came down to the wire, Spinks had more...
...diversions, Camp David also provides?at the bottom of an elevator shaft sunk 100 ft. into the mountain?a fortress where the President could repair in time of war. Even in peaceful times, security is tight. Rifle-bearing Marines keep watch behind a double row of barbed-wire-topped fences...
Volchek's stage effects are admirable, and one is memorable. At one point a barbed-wire barrier must be erected to keep desperate would-be riders off the train. The barrier is set up, and then, with a slow, ghastly insistence, the train ad vances on it until all the women in the boxcar seem to be impaled on the wire...