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...Population Reference Bureau of Washington, D.C., reached a disturbing conclusion: last Sunday, probably sometime in the evening, the world's population reached 4 billion. "If you want to go a step further," said the bureau's chief demographer, Leon Bouvier, "the odds are that the 4 billionth person is a boy born in China...
...Laboratory, and a "Psi" particle by Richter's group at the two-mile-long Stanford Linear Accelerator, it was the heaviest atomic fragment ever found-almost 3% times more massive than the proton. It was also, by nuclear standards, extremely long-lived. It survived a full one-hundred billionths of one-billionth of a second, or 1,000 times longer than other massive particles...
...trying a different technique: they tune in to the signals from the same quasar with two different antennas located many miles apart. Because of their separation, one antenna will pick up the signal slightly ahead of the other. The time difference is infinitesimally small-perhaps only a ten-billionth of a second. Yet it can be measured with the help of atomic clocks and computers. Once the difference in the signal's arrival time is known, the distance between the two antennas as well as their elevation can be calculated with an accuracy of an inch, or even less...
King of Hearts is playing for the billionth week at Central Square, but maybe if we ignore it it'll go away...
...every day to its 2,500 in the U.S., and hanging on every one a sign reading OVER 12 BILLION SOLD to commemorate an event that occurred during August. Executives at world headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., a Chicago suburb, have not bothered to investigate who ate the 12 billionth hamburger, when or in which restaurant, because they know that its consumption constituted only an ephemeral milestone. In four months or less, given the current intensity of the nation's hamburger hunger, those signs will be replaced by new ones proclaiming OVER 13 BILLION...