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Smallest Advertisement Using a powerful microscope, IBM researchers lined up individual xenon atoms to spell out the company's initials. That clever display of know-how got magnified pictures of the minuscule logo into newspapers all over the world -- for free...
...there is a difference between a smoker who ignores the Surgeon General's warning and someone who develops cancer passively just by being born into the electronic age. People live near power lines and work with their noses in computer display screens because those things are part and parcel of the ( times. Everyone deserves at the very least a rough sense of what danger such exposure brings...
...Video-display terminals. People spend whole workdays close to computer screens. The should stay 75 cm (30 in.) from the front and 90cm (3 ft.) from the sides and back. The same rule applies...
What accounted for this latest display of Oval Office policy juggling? One ingredient is the ongoing conflict between the "kinder, gentler" President Bush, outwardly sympathetic to society's disadvantaged, and the ruthless Candidate Bush, willing to exploit atavistic emotions to gain votes. Another factor is the slippery nature of racial politics, so easy to unleash but so difficult to control. For example, the Education Department's ruling on minority scholarships, which caused consternation in both the White House and the college community, apparently sprouted from a subordinate's overzealous attempt to follow the instincts of Candidate Bush. That misjudgment...
Gorbachev no longer has much room for maneuvering. Should he fail to display "the necessary firmness," warns the Soyuz group, it may call for his resignation when the fourth Congress of People's Deputies opens next week. But while adopting a harder line may endear Gorbachev to the right, it will just as likely torpedo his hopes of persuading a majority of the leaders of the country's 15 republics to sign a new union treaty without being coerced...