Word: beame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week in early April, then Gumbel traveled solo to Viet Nam to mark the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially outfitted train through the American heartland, stopping off to beam the show live from Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. What might have been merely a promotional stunt turned into an enticing Baedeker of American urban life and the country's romance with the rails. The show did not simply dwell on the sunny side of the tracks; Gumbel...
...last month. Mitterrand had previously rejected the Reagan proposal on strategic and political grounds. The French appreciated Kohl's remarks on the necessity of West European technological cooperation, particularly his support for a French-sponsored project to create an agency to pool efforts in space-age laser and particle- beam research...
Another project with potential civilian application is research into particle beams -- streams of atoms or subatomic particles with great penetrating power that could theoretically kill warheads. Says Duston: "If we can improve the focusing and control the beam strength, we could use beams for nontraumatic surgery in areas (of the body) currently inaccessible to the knife...
...Douglas Becker, 19, of Baltimore, who approached Blue Cross after reading about laser cards in computer magazines. Like the videodisk and compact audio disk, the laser card, which was developed by Drexler Technology Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., depends on laser optic technology, in which a low-power laser beam is used both to burn digital information onto the card and to "read" that information by scanning the surface. Says Becker: "This is a new application for an older mousetrap...
...downstairs!" the lady shriked appearing again in her window. There was a lot of crashing around inside, and Whalen's flishlight beam shone out through the basement windows. One of them was broken. Someone had gotten, in, and appeared to have also gotten...