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Book review / Sowa's Ark: An Enchanted Bestiary
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Why this oddly unsettling study of a chic mittel-european lady
with bored dog, malevolent duck and slice of lemon, should be
called "The last hours of Pompei" is anyone's guess. But then most
of Michael Sowa's images collected in Sowa's Ark: An Enchanted
Bestiary (Thames & Hudson, pounds 12.95) defy ex...
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Book review / Sowa's Ark: An Enchanted Bestiary
The Independent - London
; Why this oddly unsettling study of a chic mittel-european lady with bored dog, malevolent duck and slice of lemon, should be called "The last hours of Pompei" is anyone's guess. But then most of Michael Sowa's images collected in Sowa's Ark: An Enchanted Bestiary (Thames & Hudson, pounds 12.95)
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The Violent Universe: Joyrides through the X-ray Cosmos.(Books: A selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(book by Kimberly Weaver)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Science News
; THE VIOLENT UNIVERSE: Joyrides through the x-ray Cosmos KIMBERLY WEAVER Our universe is filled with enormous cataclysms-supernova explosions, galactic collisions, and stellar implosions--but until recently, many of these events went unseen, with the launch of X-ray-discerning satellites in the late
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Voyager images available on CD-ROM.
Information Today
; Voyager Images Available On CD-ROM Meridian Data has announced that images collected by the Voyager Viking planetary space missions have been stored and distributed on compact disc. Several government agencies including NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the National Center for
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A painter partial to pigs
The Spectator
; SOWA'S ARK: AN ENCHANTED BESTIARY by Michael Sowa Thames & Hudson, L12.95, pp. 71 Michael Sowa, a German painter of superlative technical skill and a wonderfully pixilated imagination, is that rarity, a popular surrealist. Sowa's art, well represented by the 59 colour plates of Sowa's Ark, is
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Next-door neighbors.(SPACE/STARS)(Brief article)
Science World
; Scientists have long suspected that the brilliant star Polaris, or the North Star, is part of a triple star system. But until recently, researchers had only spotted one of Polaris's neighbors, which is clearly visible through a high-powered telescope. The third star couldn't be seen because it is
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Vexcel Corp., Boulder, Colo.(Miscellaneous)(Brief Article)
GEO World
; httpwww.vexcel.com Vexcel released CALPRO, a new processing system to calibrate synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) images. The processor was developed under a contract awarded by JGI (Japan) to calibrate images collected by PALSAR, Japan's newest SAR sensor onboard the Advanced Land Observing
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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5 years for child porn.(News)
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
; AN ACCOUNTS clerk who downloaded Britain's biggest known collection of child pornography was jailed for five years. Andrew Tatam, 34, admitted possessing almost half a million indecent images of child abuse, which he was said to have collected like a ``trainspotter Judge Michael Heath,at Lincoln
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Kids' Q&A: How does your mind make you see?(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Q. How does your mind make you see? _Nicole Sharpe, 11 A. From center to center, the eyes are about 2{ inches apart. Each one sends visual messages to the brain, but because of the distance between them, each one sees things from a slightly different angle, so they send slightly different messages.
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Parallel Worlds: a Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Science News
; PARALLEL WORLDS: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos MICHIO KAKU Data and images collected by satellites such as the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and the Cosmic Background Explorer have enabled scientists to zero in on what happened just 380,000 years
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Measuring Thermal Images.(use of thermal imaging software)(Brief Article)
R & D
; National Instruments, Austin, Texas (800-258-7022, www.natinst. com), and FLIR Systems, Portland, Ore. (www.flir.com), have teamed up to develop thermal imaging software for LabVIEW and IMAQ Vision machine vision software. Thermal images collected by FLIR's infrared cameras are acquired and
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