Word: bio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessary for the blooming of a world-improving, necessary good in white America. Elijah Muhammad, Golda Meir, and Carleton Putnam may be "racists" yet rightly and justifiably so. It may be a failure of our spirit that we do not see as just all that necessarily accompanies evolving good. Bio-religious and religio-patriotic fervor are probably more life-giving than life-destroying, and leveling always produces new eminences...
When people have been deaf since birth, they often cannot reproduce speech because they have never heard sounds. To help them learn to speak, Ohio State University's Bio-Medical Engineering Coordinating Committee has developed a device called a visual vocoder that translates sounds into patterns of light. Soon to be used to teach children at a state school for the deaf, the machine features a display board containing 40 vertical rows of twelve lights each. Words spoken by a teacher into a microphone are converted into lights that march across the board from right to left, forming...
Nothing could have saved Anderson's platitudinous script, but Douglas makes an admirable try. He manages to transform a wholly unsympathetic curmudgeon into an object of reluctant but genuine sympathy. Without his seasoned wizardry, Father would be nothing more than matinee melodrama presented by your favorite bio-nondegradable detergent...
...Ernst Mayr, director and professor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, received one of the six 1970 National Medal of Science Awards for his contributions to systematics, bio-geography, the study of birds, and the evolution of animal populations...
...Bio 15b: Students should contact their teaching fellow by May 15 to fill out course option forms...