Word: bernard
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...government abroad. This week he was to address the U.N. in Manhattan and possibly accept some invitations to speak around the U.S. The leader of the Sandinista revolution is likely to face a lot of tough questions and a measure of hostility during his visit. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb, for instance, said last week's civil liberties suspension demonstrated "the Sandinistas fear of their own people." Ortega will undoubtedly try to use his U.S. trip to change that impression...
...theater is about ideas, but in this century George Bernard Shaw and his disciples have evolved an explicit Theater of Ideas, a vision of playwriting as a means of conducting urbane debates on great issues of the day. In these plays, beauty of language, depth of character and universal truths of human nature are subordinated to the stately combat of conflicting points of view, whether about feminism and prostitution in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession (1902) or about the moral impact of colonialism in Tom Stoppard's Night and / Day (1978). The excitement comes from hearing important arguments stirringly...
...balancing equations. But it was the school's effective use of a $2.8 million grant from the Pew Memorial Trust for faculty computer training that really made the difference. "We knew that if anything was going to make this program succeed, it would be the Drexel faculty," says Bernard Sagik, vice president for academic affairs. His innovative solution: invite teachers to become their own software developers. Faculty members with good ideas for educational computer programs were paired off with crack student and professional programmers. Their joint efforts resulted in a library of nearly 100 original programs, including a handful...
Chemistry Professor Jim Friend, for example, created an electronic periodic table for use in his general chemistry classes. Another chemist, Allan Smith, designed a "molecular editor" that can display, rearrange and rotate crystal structures made up of as many as 99 atoms. Mathematician Bernard Kolman created a program that will solve complex matrix algebra problems and explain each step along the way. Electrical Engineer Banu Onaral developed a series of programs that generate wave forms on the screen and manipulate them according to the basic rules of signal processing. "These are very theoretical subjects that require some brain gymnastics...
...announcement from Oslo was a personal triumph for Bernard Lown of Boston and Yevgeni Chazov of Moscow, the cardiologists who have presided over the antiwar organization from its beginning. The two met in 1960 and got to know each other at international professional conferences over the next two decades. They launched IPPNW in hopes of slowing the arms race. With headquarters in Boston and a branch in London, it now claims the support of 135,000 physicians and health-care professionals in 41 nations (60,000 doctors in the Soviet Union alone, according to Chazov). The Nobel judges lauded...