Word: chipping
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Vacations were short and simple for Mary Kay Conlon and Chip Plumb in their fast-track corporate days. "One phone call, no planning, never more than a week," says Conlon. "We'd just plop on the beach somewhere." But to celebrate their early retirement last year, the Evanston, Ill., couple rented a spacious Paris apartment for six months. "We always regretted that neither of us had done a junior year abroad," says Conlon, 48, a former health-care-industry executive who was eager to immerse herself in another language and culture...
...Bank apartment they rented for $4,500 a month. As Conlon became a familiar face, butchers shared culinary tips and cheesemongers gave her extra samples. Plumb, 49, became a habitué of a hole-in-the-wall café frequented by local tradesmen and accompanied Conlon on explorations around the city. "Chip discovered walks through Paris were even better than walks around a golf course," says Conlon...
Grove has been agitating about health care since the mid-'90s, when his battle with prostate cancer--which he waged scientifically, as though trying to solve a heat-dispersion problem on a chip--opened his eyes to modern medicine's digital lag. "We are engineers," he says to the room. "We take the problem, decompose it and solve it." And not just any engineers, but engineers at City College--an up-by-your-bootstraps institution famed for offering the disadvantaged a gateway to the middle class. Grove, who slipped out of his native Hungary during the 1956 revolution...
...name for bionic. A myoelectric hand works off tiny electrical signals released when muscles are contracted. The signals are picked up by electrodes that line the inside of a prosthesis and cover the muscles of a stump. Electrodes send the signal to a computer chip that instructs an electronic hand to open, close or rotate...
...much uncertainty—in the middle of the defense, on the offensive line, and behind center—for me to forecast less than two losses in good conscience. HARVARD (1-0) AT BROWN (1-0)If you listen to coach Phil Estes, the Bears have a chip on their shoulders from the dis they received in the preseason Ivy media poll, relegated to third place despite a championship in 2005. Harvard has a blue chip in its backfield—Clifton Dawson—who should run rampant over a depleted Brown D. In another intriguing matchup...