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...needed. Paull's team built a scramjet for just $750,000 but it has no body attached and hitches a ride on a former U.S. Navy rocket. The American version is also unready for boarding: the X-43 is only 4 m long, 1.6 m wide and 60 cm thick. But the leaders of world aeronautics seem to believe the future is hypersonic. nasa has invested $185 million in Hyper-X and partly funds Paull's work at the University of Queensland...
...Temple's enlargement beyond Solomon's original dimensions. So Herod expressed his egomania by adding a 35-acre platform--"the greatest ever heard of," writes Josephus--on which the Temple could sit. The Western Wall where Jews pray today is a small slice of the platform's 16-ft.-thick western side. Some of the stones are 30 ft. long and weigh up to 50 tons. ("Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!" exclaims a disciple in the Gospel of Mark.) As Herod built out over the adjacent valleys, the outline of the mountain on which the compound...
...night, I would reverse the flow of the universe. Give me your dorks, your losers, your thick-chained mooks from Jersey yearning to get lucky. For them I would open the golden door while the beautiful people waited outside. I could do this because Lotus, the hardest club to get into in Manhattan, let me work the velvet rope as doorman last Thursday, giving me complete control over who entered. I called all my friends, told them to dress badly and show up after midnight. To up the dork content even further I sent an e-mail to the entire...
...These are wires as thick as your DNA, ten atoms across, that can be made very long," says Lieber. "They are as small as have been made...
...those normal, well-adjusted students of Santee, Calif.: Where the hell are you when you see a classmate being beaten up physically or emotionally because he's fat or wears thick glasses? Why aren't you rising up in wrath and getting in the face of the bullies and demanding that they stop it? Unless you show the misfits and outcasts that you care enough to protect them, you are as guilty as those doing the bullying. EDWARD HUBER Philadelphia...