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Although many seismologists have all but forsaken their "Holy Grail"--accurately predicting when and where an earthquake will strike--a new generation of scientists has taken on the challenge of deducing the precise structure and motion of the earth's mantle and core. They are using data collected by 100 stations around the world and shared in digital form over the Internet...
...just wide enough to carry a current. But while chipmakers had developed any number of ways to etch aluminum, no one had yet figured out how to etch copper. Doing that, IBM suspected, would require inventing a whole new kind of chemistry. Doing that became something of a Holy Grail within the industry, says Drew Peck, a semiconductor analyst at Cowen...
...those of Alexandra's generation, us-vs.-them causes are hard to find. They already have peace and freedom, the Holy Grail of the '60s. "But with that," she says, "comes the monotonous undertone of the entirety of life, you know? What is there to do? There's nothing to do, there's nothing to stand for, there's nothing even to look at, because the shock value is gone...
...studio system while distracting us from their essential soullessness. And if the computer's single greatest achievement to date has been the astonishingly life-like dinosaurs of the astonishingly lifeless Jurassic Park and The Lost World, creating digital humans of similar believability remains the industry's Holy Grail...
...happen to be a Lycos man myself. For the past four years, I have pointed my Web browser to its site (www.lycos.com) in search of everything from the Holy Grail to love. Partially out of loyalty and partially out of appreciation for their page's layout, I have continued to use Lycos...