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...this: type in a request to find any place in the Bible where the words valley, shadow and death occur in the same verse. The machine will obligingly display Psalm 23: 4. Can't recall the exact words? A built-in thesaurus lets the user search through synonyms. The machine also provides - pronunciations for proper names (Enoch is EE-nuck). A handicap for some will be difficulty in reading the enhanced liquid-crystal display, whose resolution is still inferior to that of larger, more expensive personal computers that can process Bible-reference software...
...real change that needs to occur, suggests Rosenthal, is the fundamental attitude students have about drinking...
Science does not progress through revolutionary discoveries alone. Important advances also occur as ingenious experimenters devise ever more clever methods for increasing the accuracy of their observations. The Nobel Prize in Physics this year celebrates the contributions of three scientists who have spent their careers elevating precision measurement to a high art. "It's nice to know that this type of work can be appreciated," said one of the recipients, distinguished Harvard University physicist Norman Ramsey. Upon hearing the news, Ramsey, an athletic 74-year-old who recently returned from a trek in Nepal, admits that he was startled...
Ramsey was awarded half of the $470,000 prize for his contributions in pioneering a method of measuring the minute movements that occur inside atoms. Ramsey's so-called separated oscillatory fields technique did not just become a valuable scientific tool; it also provided the basis for modern-day atomic clocks. Like the ticking of a pendulum in a grandfather clock, the rapid-fire (9,192,631.770 times a second) oscillations of cesium-atom nuclei, spinning like tops inside a magnetic field, can be used to pace off time...
...motive for these mountainous excavations: gold. In 1961 Livermore, then working for the Newmont Mining Corp., made a seminal discovery. He looked for gold in the "windows" of a geological feature known as the Carlin Trend. Windows occur where obscuring layers of rock, displaced by an uplift, have eroded to expose the rock below. When Livermore cut into a window on the Carlin Trend, he hit what nongeologists took to calling invisible gold...