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...flunked out--as he once explained it, he goofed off at Yale. Before long he returned to school at the University of Wyoming to pick up bachelor's and master's degrees in political science. Though he moved on to one of the most radicalized campuses of the late 1960s, the University of Wisconsin, he took no part in the campus protests against the Vietnam War. Like George W., who came to a tumultuous Yale two years after Cheney left, he held the revolution at arm's length...
...France Flight 4590 taxied into position on Charles de Gaulle Airport's Runway 24, Captain Christian Marty's eyes would have carefully scanned the 1960s-era round gauges in the Concorde's cockpit for any signs that the No. 2 engine was acting up. He didn't need the engine's thrust reversers--which are used to slow the plane on landing--during takeoff, but Marty had ordered them repaired just before leaving the gate. The engine, on the left side, would bear watching. Marty and his co-pilot, Jean Marcot, and the flight engineer ran through the normal takeoff...
Concorde was always more than just another way to travel. In our Net-speed age, it was the embodiment of everything modern. Though designed in the 1960s, it still looks fresh long after the decade's other design fads have worn into cliche. The plane is abysmally expensive to operate--it takes three times the maintenance of a 747 and burns 50% more fuel despite carrying 100 passengers to the 747's 400--and in recent years Air France and British Airways, the only airlines that operate the plane, have taken to using gimmicks to fill the seats...
...controlled by as many as 14 different regulatory processes. Multiply that by thousands of interconnected chemical reactions operating simultaneously in billions of cells, and you've got one incredibly complex system. But Arkin knows that computer-chip designers manage similar levels of complexity. "Good engineers in the 1960s could probably understand all the circuitry that people had built," Arkin says. "But when integrated circuits were developed, that became impossible." There were just too many pieces to put together...
...years, the diagnosis appeared to apply only to a very small group of patients under the age of 60. That soon changed, thanks in part to the widespread use of vaccines and antibiotics, which extended the life-span (from around 50 years in 1906 to 77 today). By the 1960s, the number of cases of so-called senile dementia had increased to the point that neurologists finally made the connection: in most cases, Alzheimer's disease and senile dementia were one and the same (see box, page...