Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ehrlichman's appeal of his conviction for engineering the White House plumbers' break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971 after Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers. Ehrlichman, formerly Nixon's chief domestic affairs adviser, is serving time at Safford Prison, a cluster of cement-block buildings in the Arizona desert, and could be eligible for parole in April...
...behind a polished rosewood desk in a small but luxurious office in Boulder, Colo. Behind him hangs a large tapestry of a snow lion by the Japanese artist Tatsumura. His own paintings and calligraphy decorate the other walls. Six disciples, among them a scientist, a classicist and a physiotherapist, cluster around him, each dressed, like the master, in a dark suit. All are part of Chogyam's new kingdom: Naropa Institute, named for a great 8th century Buddhist scholar, the largest Buddhist study center...
Finally, while examining the yolk sacs under a microscope, he found a cluster of bacilli different from any he had seen before. When he mixed these with blood from survivors of Legionnaires' disease, he found antibodies against them in 29 out of 33 specimens, which indicated that the people had prior exposure to the bacterial strain. Tests on blood from victims of the St. Elizabeths infection-which had been carefully preserved in Atlanta in hopes of some day solving that puzzle-showed identical antibodies...
During the first year of the project, Harvard worked with Roxbury to develop "clustering," a system in which six teachers worked together as a group and taught core courses to all ninth graders. "We had something going," Nancy Banton, a math teacher said. Math teacher Chuck Williams said the cluster had close contact with Harvard and the cluster's structure facilitated field trips and utilization of resources in general. Over the summer, the city transferred 13 teachers, including two of the six cluster teachers, to other schools. This year the cluster did not start up again, and the remaining teachers...
Walkie-Talkies. For example, a six-lane highway leads from Kinshasa 30 miles east to the "presidential domain" at N'Sele. There visitors find not only a gaudy cluster of conference halls and air-conditioned bungalows but also a palace for visiting heads of state in which the baths reportedly have gold-plated fixtures. A 27-story, $50 million world trade center is rising in Kinshasa; Mobutu hopes to make the city the trading crossroads of Africa-although the telephone system is so poor that some government officials use walkie-talkies...