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    SPACE DEBRIS HITS PERSON ON EARTH
    January 22, 1997 - Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

    American Lottie Williams was reportedly the first human to be struck by a remnant of a space vehicle after re-entering the earth's atmosphere. At 3 a.m., while walking in a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she saw a light pass over her head. “It looked like a meteor,” she said. Minutes later, she was hit on the shoulder by a six-inch piece of blackened metallic material. The debris that struck Ms. Williams has not been examined to confirm its origin, but a used Delta II rocket, launched nine months earlier, had crashed into the Earth's atmosphere half an hour earlier. NASA scientists believe that Williams was hit by a part of it, making her the only person in the world known to have been hit by man-made space debris.

    URANIUM FISSION
    January 22, 1939 - Columbia University in New York City, U.S.A.

    The uranium atom was split for the first time using the cyclotron at Columbia University in New York City. Thus began the Manhattan Project, leading to the construction of the atom bomb. The project was subsequently moved inland to the University of Chicago to protect the research from any possible German bombing of New York. (Also the weight of the apparatus was so great that the floor was in danger of collapsing!) The cyclotron that performed the first-ever fission experiment was designed and built (1935-36) by John R. Dunning, who became Dean of the Engineering School, 1950-69). In 1965, the cyclotron was taken to the Smithsonian Institute. The original invention of the first cyclotron was by physicist Ernest Lawrence.

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The article focuses on Microsoft Office Word developed by Microsoft Ltd. It also covers the history of development, highlights its importance in everyday use as well as introduces the 2010 version.

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The speedily growing competition and advanced IT technologies have made marketers pay attention to efficiency and proficiency of all work processes. As a result, there have been introduced diverse programmes to optimize companies' work. Microsoft Word is one of the most widely used file formats. Microsoft Word is a word processing application designed for creation of documents, for instance resumes, newsletters, fax cover sheets, audit reports, legal documents, brochures, instruction manuals and more.

Microsoft Word is frequently deployed by companies, community agencies, and can be found in most schools and colleges. Students deploy it daily and business people use it for creating office documents. The Word was introduced by Microsoft Ltd. It was invented under the name Multi-Tool Word. The first addition was launchedin the 1980s. Since that time, there have been developed several other versions, including the latest version that appeared in 2008. The next addition of Word is thought to be introduced in the coming 2010. It will include many new features common to other programmes in the Office 2010. The 2010 version will have new WordArt styles and effects supplanting the old ones.

Although Word is a constituent of the Microsoft Office system, it is also sold as a standalone software package and included in Microsoft Works Suite. Beginning with the 2003 version, the branding was altered to emphasise Word's identity as a constituent within the Office Suite. Microsoft Ltd. Renamed Microsoft Word into Microsoft Office Word.
The application allows users to type, format and modify text to be printed out or viewed electronically. The Word Format is a low-cost word processing program. The application offers a large number of tools and features, and many users are familiar and comfortable with its Microsoft toolbars.

Microsoft Word offers tools to format fonts, add clipart, add page numbers, and create tables and headers. Word's file formats are denoted either by a. doc or. docx file extension. The newer ".docx" extension denotes the Office Open XML international standard for Office documents and is deployed by Word 2007 for Windows, Word 2008 for the Macintosh.

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