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Fibers have enormous advantages over wires. Because they do not "leak" light as copper wires "leak" electricity, fibers should eliminate the cross talk and static that can occur when one telephone wire spills some of its signal into a neighboring line. Measuring as little as one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, the fibers are also far less bulky than wires -an important consideration in cities, where underground cable conduits are already overcrowded. Eventually, the fibers may also prove cheaper. Supplies of copper are limited; silicon, the chief ingredient of glass fiber, is one of the most plentiful materials...
Embree, whose jump of 7 ft. 2 1/4 in. eclipsed the meet's high jump record by half an inch, tied Harvard's mark in the process...
...with a U.C.L.A. psychiatrist who had to rule on her mental stability. Says she: "I suppose they figured that if I was willing to play a part like that, I had to be insane." To prepare for the role, she got into "Iris' " satin hot pants and six-inch platforms and spent a month of her summer vacation walking a beat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She was not picked up. "I couldn't believe how she looked in her wardrobe," says her mother, Brandy Foster, a former Hollywood pressagent. "Suddenly she had legs...
...location in nearby Godfrey, Eichen and his fellow film makers-un-supervised by a teacher because the filming took place during vacation-taped a half-inch-thick piece of soft pine to Nilsson's chest. Then, as the 8-mm. camera whirred, a"pusher" knocked Nilsson to the ground with faked blows of a club...
...must emphasize the fact that the authenticity of Scheissmann scrolls has been questioned, because the German scholar won't submit them to Carbon 14 date-testing--he alleges that writing covers every inch of every scroll...