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...that's why next year the Oscars won't be able to count me as its 6 billionth viewer, or whatever number they claim is slightly higher than the population of the planet. Because I don't care if my favorite actor doesn't win. It's not as if the guy isn't overloaded with babes and money already. Richard Farnsworth is going to be fine. It just takes him a little longer than most people to get going at the urinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Buddy, Watch the Shoes! | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...such a timepiece would be virtually useless today: computers, communications satellites, global-positioning receivers and telephone-switching systems need a precision beyond anything conceivable even 50 years ago. Time technology long since abandoned mechanical devices and even the hum of quartz crystals. For true precision--accuracy to a billionth of a second--you need to travel, virtually at least, to a place like the perfectly circular, well-guarded park that sits in northwest Washington. There, on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, a nondescript concrete building houses the nerve center of the U.S. Directorate of Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of Time | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Such are the dreams of the nanotechnologists, engineers at places like M.I.T., Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon, who are already redefining the meaning of the word miniature. The prefix nano- refers to a billionth part of a unit--the size range these visionaries are talking about. Already, nanotechnologists have built gears and rotors far thinner than a human hair and tiny molecular "motors" only 50 atoms long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Environment: ...And Will They Go Inside Us? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...bounce a signal off so distant a target, he called on Donald Campbell, the chief scientist at the world's largest radiotelescope, the 1,000-ft. dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Campbell agreed to try, although he estimated that the power of the returned signal would be about a billionth of a watt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost and Found in Orbit | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...techniques of choice for this sort of cartography are x-ray crystallography and protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), which take a snapshot of a protein at a resolution of less than a billionth of a meter...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Start-Ups at Cutting Edge of Science Innovations | 4/14/1998 | See Source »

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