Word: compacts
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...technologically ignorant, MP3-short for Motion Picture Experts Group 1 Audio Layer 3-is the audio-coding software which allows fans to compress digital music files from compact discs into a size more manageable for personal storage and Internet transmission. While a typical digitally recorded song takes up about 40 megabytes of space, its MP3 counterpart only needs about...
...were far smaller than the bulky VHS tapes that fit in our borrowed recorder. Quality improved in 1989 with the introduction of Hi8 film, and it caught on with some 10 million consumers, making 8 mm and Hi8 the most popular format. (The closest competition is VHS-C, a compact cassette that fits in an adapter that plays in a standard VHS deck...
...dark, compact man with mischievous gray-blue eyes, Fermi was the son of a civil servant, an administrator with the Italian national railroad. He discovered physics at 14, when he was left bereft by the death of his cherished older brother Giulio during minor throat surgery. Einstein characterized his own commitment to science as a flight from the I and the we to the it. Physics may have offered Enrico more consolatory certitudes than religion. Browsing through the bookstalls in Rome's Campo dei Fiori, the grieving boy found two antique volumes of elementary physics, carried them home and read...
...make a dandy weapon or torture device, as Sean Connery found to his dismay in the James Bond film Goldfinger. But while laser weaponry never really took off, lasers certainly did. Today they are used for, among other things, dentists' drills and delicate eye surgery, recording and playing back compact discs, measuring the distance to the moon, creating and viewing holograms, industrial cutting and welding, sending voices and data through the air and down optical fibers, surveying roads and building sites, generating energy in controlled-nuclear-fusion experiments, "painting" dots on a drum in laser printers and as high-tech...
...Veronika, der Lenz ist da (named for one of its hits), has run in Berlin for more than a year. Barry Manilow is fine-tuning his own musical, Harmony, with an eye to a Broadway opening next year. Harmonist acolytes have paid the group tribute in concert and on compact disc in Germany, Britain and the U.S., where CDs of the original recordings are selling briskly. The Comedian Harmonists can't go on a reunion tour like the Drifters--the last surviving member died last year at 97--but it is suddenly the world's hottest oldies...