... the ability to cruise at supersonic speeds, and didn't cost very much. The YF-22 and YF-23 were the first planes to accomplish this. With all the planes we know of, there are also top secret programs probably going on right now. A new fighter that has never been heard of before has been spotted. As John Welch, the assistant secretary of Air Force said, "Stealth gives us back that fundamental element of war called surprise" (Goodall 9). After it was found that aircraft could be very useful in war, it was used for large scale reconnaissance. Then people started to add bombs to aircraft and then airp ...

... only those who are United States citizens or reside legally in the United States, given permission by the Immigration Naturalization Service (INS). This new law will affect about thirty percent of our CareLink membership population. In order to become compliant with the new law and continue the program, effective July 1st we will begin to ask for citizenship or legal resident documentation before enrolling in the CareLink program. If documentation is not available the patient will be denied membership. (Simmons, Mrs. Juanita to Member Service & Education staff. 13 June 1998. Process Change - Residency Issue.) ...

... of communication. If a network link became damaged by enemy attack, the information on it could be rerouted automatically to other links. This was the birth of the Internet. In order to use anything on the Internet, it is required that you learn to operate a separate program, one for the mail, one for news groups, and several different programs for accessing databases. This all changed in 1989. A researcher at CERN (a big European physics laboratory) named Tim Berners-Lee started to work on hypertext. By using hypertext he could link together all the different kinds of information available on the Internet. ...

... Online Floppies. Floppies are also considered to be very sensitve data storage mediums. These Disks have numerous advantages and disadvanteges. Even though floppies are used so commonly they are also not very dependable. They have numerous conditions under which they should normally be kept. For example: the actuall magnetic disk inside the hard cover of the disk must NEVER be touched, the magnetic disk inside, must be protected by the metallic sliding shield, the disk must always be within the temperature of 50° to 140° Fahrenheit and the disk must never be bought near a magnet! (3M Diskettes) There are m ...

... Hansell (from the United States) came up with the idea of using arrays of hollow pipes or transparent rods to transmit images for television or facsimile systems. However, the first person that was known to have demonstrated image transmission through a bundle of optical fibers was a guy by the name of Heinrich Lamm whom which was a medical student at Munich. His goal was to be able to look inside inaccessible parts of the human body, and in a 1930 paper he reported transmitting the image of a light bulb filament through a short bundle. However the unclad fibers transmitted the images poorly, and the rise of the Nazi ...

... thousands of machines. A set of rules, of protocols, known as TCP/IP was developed to allow disparate devices to work together. The original network has long since been upgraded and expanded and TCP/IP is now a ¡§de facto¡¨ standard. Millions of people worldwide are using the Internet to share information, make new associations and communicate. Individuals and businesses, from students and journalists, to consultants, programmers and corporate giants are all harnessing the power of the Internet. For many businesses the Internet is becoming integral to their operations. Imagine the ability to send and receive d ...

... strung together to create the illusion of smooth fluent movement."1 But the process of creating this so- called illusion, is a pain staking process during which artists must spend tremendous hours of agony to produce only seconds of animated film. Before an animator goes about creating an animation he or she must have the knowledge of several rules of animation, which animators around the world follow. The first rule of animation is that an animator must hold the understanding of the techniques used to produce single cells of animation. Second rule, and one of the most important ones is that, the animator must hav ...

... to expect? "The modern discoveries and applications of Science throw deeply into the shade the old romances and fanciful legends of our boyhood" (James 8) observes James. Technology has made what was once thought impossible, plausible and weather or not technology is directly incorporated into a science fi ction story as an obvious vehicle, the author knows that it is always present in the mind of the reader. It is this plausablilty of what conventionally should not be acceptable that has led to science fiction's increasing popularity over the years. As James explains, "much sf is concerned with the future ...

... and bled over since the birth of our Constitution. Four years ago, Congress approved the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which was designed to protect children by prohibiting “indecent� speech or images from being sent through cyberspace. One of the biggest groups that combated the censorship law is the CIEC (Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition). The CIEC found and posted on their website some obvious problems with the CDA. “This law would prohibit texts of classic fiction such as the Catcher in the Ryer, Ulysees, “Seven Dirty Words� by George Carlin, and other materials which, although offensive to ...

... is wild. You bask in the glory as you realize that they are cheering for you! Now stop fantasizing. Probably none of these things are ever going to happen to you in real life. However, there is a way that you can experience the feeling that something like this is happening. If you're open to new ideas, and you have a good imagination, virtual reality may be a toy for you. What is VR? Virtual Reality grew out of flight simulation research during World War II and early computer graphics research in the 1960's. In 1965, computer scientist Ivan Sutherland published a paper describing "The Ult ...