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...Ethiopia to California. Bill Bright is a late convert into the exploding field of religious potboilers, but an enthusiastic one. "I've written many books about the Holy Spirit," he says cheerfully, "And this will probably be read by many times more people." He knows that if only one thousandth of the people whom he has reached for Christ through other means shell out their $14.99 for "Blessed Child," the book will leave behind the hugely successful "Left Behind" series...
...Some hyper-sensitive people say they get headaches from listening to MP3s because of the psycho-acoustics; that it isn't quite blasting out the right frequency for their ears. I don't doubt it's possible that some thousandth of a percent of users are affected. Just as I don't doubt my lottery number might come up, or that I might have touched enough laundered linens and walked on enough carpets to blow up my Palm and PC. In a universe where nothing from the speed of light on down is stable, not even a Palm Pilot...
...other batsman was more elegant, another more powerful or charismatic. But always Bradman's record destroys their claim. Between 1928 and 1948 he played 52 Tests, in which he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94. For cricket followers, it is that average, pondered even for the thousandth time, which bewilders. The next best: South African Graeme Pollock...
This isn't science fiction. The National Cancer Institute and NASA plan to spend $12 million a year for the next three years to develop nanosensors--devices less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair--that will scan the body for the molecular signatures of cancer--the aberrant proteins found on malignant cells, for instance--and map the locations and shapes of tumors. If engineered to carry drugs or genes, the sensors could treat cancers one cell at a time, attacking malignant cells but leaving healthy ones unharmed. The result: an end to the pharmaceutical carpet bombing...
After 18 months and more than a billion dollars, the 2000 presidential election looked as if it might be decided by one five-thousandth of 1% of the vote. Gore seemed to have won a moral victory, but he might not have won an actual one. His 222,880-vote lead in the popular tally was the fuel for his campaign's demand for a manual recount in some Florida counties, for time to register the outcome of the absentee ballots there, and for the nation to show some patience. And so the end of one campaign marked the beginning...