Word: blackboarding
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...office in Lyman laboratory, near the Law School. A huge floor-to-ceiling bookcase filled with copies of the Physics Review and unbound notes lines one wall. Some colorful charts of fish from a local food-packing company and a map of Boston decorate another. The third has a blackboard on it covered with scientific-type scribbling and a picture of Glashow and Howard M. Georgi III, associate professor of Physics and frequent collaborator with Glashow. Georgi and Glashow face each other in the picture, bemused. A cartoon-type bubble pasted on the picture depicts them berating each other with...
...Chalk. Freed by his assistants from chalking diagrams on a blackboard, West has concentrated on overall strategy and getting the best possible play from his charges. But it is in inspiring somewhat lackluster talents that he has excelled. With the coach leading the cheers, the Los Angeles bench resembles a rah-rah college crew more than a collection of blasé professionals. West passes the hours on planes and in the team bus building the Lakers' confidence and, seemingly, willing them into winners. A genuine camaraderie has developed among the Lakers, and West has led the off-court high...
Pizza Break. After the teams were informed of John Ginn's problem, which took 72 pages in all to describe, they had 22 hours to write a solution. In most cases it was an all-night process. Cornell's Pat Jeffries worked at a blackboard and worried about his presentation ("I'm an actor, and part of this competition is theater"). Teammate Tom Mulligan nibbled chocolate-chip cookies and poked at his minicomputer. Said Cornell's Nancy Read in the small hours: "As the evening has progressed we have done nothing but enlarge the scope...
...equations to describe all the results we've had." Whether these are the right equations, though, remains to be determined. Adds Soffen: "It's not a question of finding a chemical explanation; we must find the chemical explanation, and we need a natural as opposed to a blackboard explanation...
...hand, a long cloak over his shoulders, "Brother Colonel" Muammar Gaddafi sat alone at a desk center-stage in the spanking-new, audio-equipped People's Hall, lecturing 980 People's Congress delegates like a stern but kindly headmaster. Occasionally he would make use of a blackboard to illustrate a topic. At times the proceedings suggested a college teach-in, with Gaddafi reminding delegates that they, not he, were the decision makers. As for the country's top ministers, the colonel said, "You can change any of them right now if you choose...