Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them in mid-December at a scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it?s a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack button. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool to the proposal, but NORAD intends to go ahead and build the facility, which could be shared with other countries. ?If they get interested months from now, we want to be ready,? explains Navy Commander David B. Knox...
...M.I.T.--where he built a massive, gear-driven analog computer called the differential analyzer--was also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext "links," much like today's Web surfers...
...course bodily fluids -- than the kind we're fighting now. But take the alternate title, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and you've got a decent description of Bill Clinton's foreign policy. No endgame? No vision? No problem. Just push the button and let those smarties fly. Kubrick found Peter Sellers in Lolita; the U.S. found let-'er-fly diplomacy in the Gulf War. And you know what? They've both served us pretty darn well...
...appreciation of this mixed community seems to be reciprocal. Just as KSG students say they believe the community involvement adds perspective, community members say they feel that KSG events allow them to learn about current events and hot-button issues...
...appreciation of this mixed community seems to be reciprocal. Just as KSG students say they believe the community involvement adds perspective, community members say they feel that KSG events allow them to learn about current events and hot-button issues...