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	Thursday, 15 August 2002

I've made my first attempt, "just a test", at building what Radio calls a story. It seems to be a web page that is not part of the log. 10:59:05 PM

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ARE THERE COMPROMISES BETWEEN ACCESSIBILITY AND DESIGN? Does a web site have to forfeit something to gain accessibility? Michael[base ']s markover. Michael Barrish gets a markover. (45 words) [dive into mark] [Steve Pilgrim: Radio] 10:51:56 PM

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Today is ... 1777: Birth of Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist who discovered that electric current in a wire can deflect a magnetized compass needle 1886: Birth of Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, physicist who built the first mass spectrometer 1994: Hubble space telescope took pictures of the rings of Uranus [David Harris: Science news] 10:51:01 PM

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Alfalfa plants can harvest gold Ordinary alfalfa plants are being used as miniature gold factories that one day could provide the nanotechnology industry with a continuous harvest of gold nanoparticles.   [David Harris: Science news] 10:50:04 PM

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Silkworm silk can match spider silk for strength Silkworm silk has generally been seen as weaker then the silk from spiders. However, much depends on the preparation of the silkworm silk, especially how it is spun. By spinning silk at different speeds, it can be given different properties according to a paper to appear in tomorrow's Nature. Faster spinning creates stronger more brittle fibres while slower spinning leads to weaker but stretchier fibres. The maximum strength of the silkworm silk can nearly be made to equal that of spider silk. [David Harris: Science news] 10:47:33 PM

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Texas Executes Mexican for Murder Despite President Fox's Plea. In a case that has strained Mexico's relations with the United States, a Mexican citizen was executed in Texas on Wednesday. By Ginger Thompson. [New York Times: International] 10:46:09 PM

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John Holmes, deceased porn star icon and MIT student. [Memepool] 10:45:15 PM

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Today is ... 1918: Birth of Frederick Sanger, biochemist and twice recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902: Birth of Felix Wankel, inventor of the first rotary internal combustion engine 1819: Birth of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, fluid dynamicist 1814: Birth of Anders Jonas Ångström, a founder of spectroscopy 1642: Christiaan Huygens discovered the Martian south polar cap [David Harris: Science news] 10:44:10 PM

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Source of universe's gamma rays found "Scientists at Columbia University and Barnard College have found that the majority of the gamma rays outside of our galaxy are likely emitted by galaxy clusters and other massive structures. This may resolve a 30-year-old mystery as to the origin of the Universe's gamma-ray background." Details and animations [David Harris: Science news] 10:42:26 PM

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Thomas A. Edison. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." [Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes] 10:33:59 PM

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"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." --Thomas Jefferson [Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes] 10:31:56 PM

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Sharpest moon image The sharpest image of the moon's surface taken from the Earth's surface was released today. [David Harris: Science news] 10:26:26 PM

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