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...professional timekeepers of the world determine, to the precise nanosecond, when a new year begins? They simply consult an atomic clock. And last week, just in time to ring in the new, the Hewlett-Packard Co., of Palo Alto, Calif., unveiled the latest in these meticulous timepieces. Twice as accurate as earlier models, the $54,000 device -- the size of a desktop computer -- will remain reliable to the second for the next 1.6 million years, a period far longer than modern humans have existed...
Dartmouth, on the other hand, will have to work the clock and look for quality shots. With its outside guns, it can rely on quickness and ballhandling, which Faucher has in spades...
...become the common frame of reference for the world's power elite. Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush and Saddam Hussein -- the headline sparring partners of the year just past -- are all alert watchers. What a computer message can accomplish within an office, CNN achieves around the clock, around the globe: it gives everyone the same information, the same basis for discussion, at the same moment. That change in communication has in turn affected journalism, intelligence gathering, economics, diplomacy and even, in the minds of some scholars, the very concept of what it is to be a nation...
...half-hour break arrives on schedule, but Anderson does not. "Come on," mutters Furnad, "it's gotta happen before 4 o'clock." On the air, reporter Charles Jaco is killing time by talking to a legal expert. Finally Anderson / appears. Furnad shifts into overdrive: a switch back to Atlanta anchor Lou Waters; a shot of Anderson arriving; a split screen showing Anderson's Associated Press colleagues in New York City; a phone interview with John Anderson, Terry's brother...
Without question, these recent additions to the scientific tool kit hold tremendous practical promise. A more accurate atomic clock, for instance, is not just a curiosity. "If we can put better clocks into orbit," notes William Phillips, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, "we might improve the global positioning system enough to land airplanes in pea-soup fog." Even now it is not difficult to imagine that STMs might be employed by the semiconductor industry to produce minuscule electronic devices, that optical tweezers might be used by surgeons to correct defects in a single cell...