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...circuit that can be switched on or off, representing the zeroes and ones of digitized data. In today's issue of Science magazine, IBM researchers report that they've managed to shrink those circuits down to the atomic level, a triumph of nanotechnology that could result in a hundredfold increase in disk drive capacity. Just when you were getting used to your 10-gigabyte hard disk, now we're talking one terabyte...
...another point in the transcript, Wigand alleged that the company introduced into its cigarettes--at "a hundredfold the safety level"--a pipe-tobacco additive, coumarin, that it knew caused liver tumors in laboratory mice. And he described two threatening phone calls, one of which hinted at harm to his two children if he didn't "leave tobacco alone.'' B&W responded to the Daily News article by threatening legal action against CBS News for leaking it. A lawyer for the tobacco company warned that the network would be held responsible for any libel contained in the transcript...
...most eager consumers of supercomputer time, however, are scientists. Over the past five years, the number of researchers with access to supercomputers has grown almost a hundredfold, to more than 30,000, thanks to a network of supercomputer centers established by the National Science Foundation, the national laboratories and various state governments. In a wide variety of fields from astronomy to theoretical physics, computer simulation has replaced laboratory experimentation as a basic tool of scientific research. It is much easier to study the behavior of ionized gases in a computer simulation, for example, than it is to build a full...
...retire every night," says Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who turns 70 in October. "Then I wake up the next day and go to work." Diz has no intention of curtailing his brilliant 50-year career. "Jazz is a hundredfold more popular now than it was when I was younger," he says, "and I know more than I did earlier." Last week the bebopping hornman kicked off a two-week engagement at Michael's Pub in Manhattan for an appreciative SRO crowd. Later this year PBS will air a tribute to him staged at the Wolf Trap music festival and featuring Vocalist...
...cells--specialized white blood cells essential to the immune system--in both of the test patients. (An abnormally low level of these cells is a hallmark of AIDS.) One of the patients, a 38-year-old man described as having been "near death" before treatment, had a hundredfold increase in his T-4 level...