Word: chu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Julian J. Chu '93, head of the Commission onHuman Rights committee, said, "The conference ranvery smoothly considering the magnitude...
...Cape Town, South African students and several ANC representatives at the Bishopscourt (Tutu's residence) in Cape Town; witness and anti-Moi riot in Nairobi, Kenya; learn mantras at the Madurai Temple in India; visit biotechnology production plants, rubber plantations and the beach in Malaysia; visit the Hsin-Chu Science Park in Taiwan; tour Guangzhou (Canton) in Southern China with the mayor to several of Southern China's special economic zones and factories and stay with a Japanese history professor and his family in Kyoto, Japan...
Weapons change purposes these days as easily as people change hats. But rumblings from the Pentagon indicate that even the latest version of Star Wars is in trouble. The first tremor came in a May 15 memo by Assistant Secretary of Defense David Chu leaked to the press last week. Haste could make billions of dollars in waste, warned Chu. The department's top weapons analyst says plans to deploy 100 ground-based interceptors by 1997 -- rather than 2002, as he recommends -- to fend off small-scale nuclear attacks cannot proceed without major cost overruns and performance problems...
...generation of precision instruments has exposed a breathtaking microworld to scientific exploration. Aided by computers that convert blizzards of data into images on a screen, these instruments are helping scientists see -- and even tinker with -- everything from living cells to individual atoms. "This technology is still pretty crude," marvels Chu. "Who knows what we may be able to do with it in a few years' time...
...such supercold temperatures, scientists believe, matter may start to exhibit bizarre and interesting new properties. Certainly, cold atoms can be trapped and manipulated in a variety of cunning ways. The fountains created by Chu, for example, are enabling scientists to observe atoms in free fall and thus measure gravitational force with unprecedented accuracy. Fountains are also helping scientists measure the oscillations of cesium atoms more precisely than ever before, and cesium atoms are to atomic clocks -- the world's most precise timepieces -- what quartz crystals are to wristwatches...