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...take for granted my role in working with AIDS, but there are people out there who don't even realize that AIDS is an acronym. It'sfrightening that the word is so much in the publicthat it doesn't mean anything anymore. It's scarythat magazines are advertised with the idea thatthe crisis is more saleable than the solution...
What's in a name? For many it only means the departure of the department's familiar acronym, PSR, but according to academics here at Harvard and to scholars across the country, complex changes in the departmen underlie the effort to simplify the moniker...
...strange mixture of participants underscored the unusual cross-cultural impact of Maimonides, who is also known as Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, "the Rambam" (an acronym) and the "second Moses." Religious sage, philosopher, community leader and physician, the Rambam was also culturally complex--a Jew steeped in ancient Greek philosophy who spent his life among Muslims and influenced Christian Europe. As Soviet Scholar Vitali Naumkin told the Paris meeting, "Maimonides is perhaps the only philosopher in the Middle Ages, perhaps even now, who symbolizes a confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western...
...intelligence official, Rafi Eitan, who was running his own spying operation in ) Washington unbeknown to his superiors in Jerusalem. A special adviser on counterterrorism to former Prime Ministers, Eitan also held a high-level position in the Liaison Bureau for Scientific Affairs, known by its Hebrew acronym, LAKAM. Established by Peres when he was deputy Defense Minister in the 1960s, LAKAM employs agents to gather scientific and technological data. Eitan has denied any involvement with Pollard...
Their computer career began freshman year, when they began giving computer advice to commercial firms, sometimes with a fee, sometimes without one. Once they developed a reputation in the area for being able to solve computer problems, they formed MARBLE Associates. MARBLE was designed as an acronym of our names--Marc, Alan, and Robert, the original founders of the partnership. On the first of this year, MARBLE Associates became a corporation, thus limiting their personal liability: "If we get a lot of people who 'abuse' us [i.e., don't pay], and we go under, then we don't have...