Word: folding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resides in an 11-dimensional world that is filled with weird objects called branes. Strings, in this nomenclature, are one-dimensional branes; membranes are two-dimensional branes. But there are also higher-dimensional branes that no one, including Witten, quite knows how to deal with. For these branes can fold and curl into any number of bewildering shapes...
...bland San Jose, Calif., office park--was a goofily informal place to work. Decor ran to Star Wars figures and giant papier-mache Pez dispensers, a wedding gift when Pierre and Pam tied the knot. The first employees had to assemble their own desks, and everyone sat on fold-up beach chairs. Work ground to a halt at 3 p.m. for Nerf soccer games...
...success stories. It has defied the 11th Commandment: Internet Start-Ups Shall Bleed Red Ink. It's made money from its first month of operation. After only four years, eBay is worth some $20 billion--more than Sears and J.C. Penney combined--and its stock price has surged 25-fold. The rewards for the key players have been lavish. Whitman, after less than two years at the company, controls shares worth about $1 billion. Skoll's net worth is more than $3 billion. Omidyar's 30% ownership adds up to more than $5 billion...
Fellow junior sniper Chris Bala jumpstarted his game with two goals against Union. Bringing Moore into the fold would cement Harvard's two scoring lines and make it a much more dangerous offensive team...
...sexually transmitted disease that causes genital warts, usually goes away on its own. But if it doesn't? A Swedish study now confirms what many doctors have suspected. A persistent HPV infection--one that hangs on for at least a year--raises the odds of developing cervical cancer 200-fold. And there's not too much you can do to prevent HPV. Condoms help somewhat, but monogamy or abstention is the only surefire way to be safe...