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...working with helium-3, a rare isotope of the common gas, looking for a "phase transition," analogous to the changes in water when it turns from vapor to liquid and from liquid to ice. They had cooled a sample to within two one-thousandths of a degree of absolute zero (-459.67[degrees] F), the temperature at which atomic motion ceases...
When the U.S. fired cruise missiles at Iraq last month, Net users raced for their computers to get the news. At CNN Interactive, traffic tripled in minutes; the site's computers served up more than 18 million pages of info that week--CNN's record. "We went from zero to 60 like that," says the Website's executive producer, Jeff Garrard, snapping his fingers...
...Bruce Nelson, a Minnesota resident who, while catching frogs for catfish bait, realized that almost all of the frogs he caught were horribly deformed. The deformed frogs, which can have anywhere from zero to six legs, shrunken sex organs and missing eyes, are almost ubiquitous in Minnesota. Scientists are not sure what's causing the deformity...
...member Palestinian Legislative Council that was elected in January was supposed to check the power of Arafat's executive. But when a group of councilors was asked recently what percentage of their resolutions were implemented by the P.A., they broke out laughing. The answer was zero. Arafat has trampled on the supposedly independent judiciary as well. In mid-August the High Court in Ramallah ordered the release of 10 university students detained without being charged in a roundup of alleged Islamists. But Arafat squashed the order, explaining to a delegation from the Legislative Council that he had not been consulted...
...Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please? Is monitoring bone decalcification the reason we ventured into the cosmos in the first place...