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...World War II. The gallery is evidence of a recent transition within the History of Science department, from merely studying texts to analyzing scientific tools themselves. “The Putnam gallery is much more than a collection of tools and a museum piece,” department chair Allan M. Brandt said. “It’s more of an active learning space.” With only thin glass cases separating visitors from the tools, the observer can closely analyze the pieces. “It’s great how the thin casings don?...
...This article contains a complex chart -- Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] Standing under a fading bluesign that says BIRTHPLACE OF THE AMERICAN V6, Allan Taylor gestures at the factory behind him and grimaces. "Everything in there is obsolete," he says of the Buick engine plant. Taylor has spent 30 years there, and at 59 he's nearing retirement. It's a good thing too, since the plant won't be running much longer. General Motors plans to shut it down in 2008, one of nine factories the company aims to close, eliminating 30,000 jobs. Taylor...
...UCLA, the brain atlas is due to be released online next year. Data are being stored and analyzed on a supercomputer at UCLA with 1 petabyte of capacity--equivalent to a book with 250 billion pages. "They are laying the groundwork for all other brain studies to come," says Allan Jones, of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle...
...atlas should also provide a springboard for a broader range of experiments. "Neuroimaging is more than finding the next drug for anxiety," says Allan Schore, a neuroscientist at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. "We can study empathy, trust, deception, emotional communication, regulation of violence--issues that are central to human existence...
...This was a big loss for Arnold, but not yet a fatal blow," says Allan Hoffenblum, a Los Angeles-based Republican strategist."The question now is how does he reconnect with voters who supported him [in the recall election] in 2003 but who abandoned him this time?" For Schwarzenegger to reconnect, Hoffenblum says, "he has to calm down the rhetoric, stop being the celebrity and start being the governor...