Word: effecting
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...weight and distorting the curve, the mirror had to be a bulky 26 in. thick, and it weighed 20 tons. That enormous heft called for an even more massive support structure to hold the whole thing up while at the same time adjusting constantly to counteract the effect of Earth's rotation. Scaling the design up any further would have been absurdly expensive...
...declassified in the 1980s, it's now being adapted for major telescopes everywhere. The idea is straightforward: stars and galaxies twinkle and shimmer because turbulent pockets of air act as weak, light-distorting lenses (heat rising from a car's hood or an asphalt parking lot causes a similar effect). With adaptive optics, though, a computer can measure the shimmer and cancel it out (see diagram...
...German physician. Homeopaths today still rely on his "law of similars," which holds that tiny quantities of a substance that in larger amounts produces symptoms of a disease will cure that disease. Another homeopathic dictum, the "law of infinitesimals," states that the smaller the dose, the more powerful the effect...
Homeopathic preparations are hardly dangerous. Even those that use deadly poisons as active ingredients are so diluted that they should cause no harm. Many users swear that their minor ailments have been cured through homeopathy. But scientists argue that the placebo effect--whereby belief in a treatment will provide relief--is probably at work. It's likely that the symptoms would have disappeared anyway with no medical intervention...
...Gore's reading that 55 percent of Americans tell CNN/USA Today/Gallup they support a Florida hand recount - in this season, a landslide. The Bush team, in danger of sounding like vote-suppressing meanies, rejoiced at Harris's firm intention to contain the process in Florida, or at least its effect on the national election. But now it's Bush and Harris against Gore and a whole lot of lawsuits. And in court, the Bush team is already...