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...rich Talal provided his bride with a few trinkets as well. Items: a necklace containing 263 diamonds and an emerald; an engagement ring with a marquise diamond approximately an inch long, half an inch wide; a gold mesh bracelet, a diamond-studded necklace, and a hunting-case wristwatch adorned with seven large diamonds and several smaller ones. More important, Talal bought himself a 20-room mansion on the mountain road to Damascus, which suggested that Mona would not be cooped up all year round in a Saudi Arabian harem...
...Motz's "millimeter-wave generator" is made up, first, of a linear accelerator that produces a pulsed beam of electrons about ? inch in diameter. The electrons, whose energy is 2,000,000 electron volts, pass into an "undulator," a silver wave guide that is held between 16 pointed steel teeth. The teeth set up separate and alternating magnetic fields, and as the electrons pass from field to field, they are made to oscillate, forming the desired waves less than one millimeter long...
Relativity in Action. The teeth are about an inch apart along the undulator, and this seems coarse for an apparatus that yields such tiny waves. But the undulator is "shrunk" by one of the strange effects connected with Einstein's relativity. According to "the Lorentz contraction," a stationary object shrinks when it is observed from a moving object. The faster the motion, the more the shrinkage...
...Brain surgery can now be performed with greater precision, using ultrasonic vibrations (a million cycles per second, or 50 times faster than the highest audible note) instead of the neurosurgeon's knife. University of Illinois researchers have focused the beam down to one-twentieth of an inch in diameter-the thickness of a pencil lead...
...Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed aboard the Maggie to see that the boss's orders are carried out. And the bonny little fiend of a cabin boy, Tommy Kearins, with his soup-bowl haircut and that grand commercial light in his eye, is every dirty inch the Huck Finn of the Hebrides...