Word: conducters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girl was born, she became a doting grandmother. Now and then, however, she wondered if the girl was really her granddaughter. So one day she took a sample of her dead son's blood that the police had kept as evidence and hired a Houston company called Identigene to conduct a DNA paternity test. "I just wanted there to be no question marks," says McField. The tests showed that the little girl was not her son's; McField has since severed relations with both the woman and the child...
...technological nightmares of the day--the cost and unreliability of the vacuum tubes used as valves to control the flow of electrons in radios and telephone-relay systems--lay in solid-state physics. Vacuum tubes were hot, bulky, fragile and short-lived. Crystals, particularly crystals that can conduct a bit of electricity, could do the job faster, more reliably and with 1 million times less power--if only someone could get them to function as electronic valves. Shockley and his team figured out how to accomplish this trick. Understanding of the significance of the invention of what came...
Terman believed IQ tests should be used to conduct a great sorting out of the population, so that young people would be assigned on the basis of their scores to particular levels in the school system, which would lead to corresponding socioeconomic destinations in adult life. The beginning of the IQ-testing movement overlapped with the eugenics movement--hugely popular in America and Europe among the "better sort" before Hitler gave it a bad name--which held that intelligence was mostly inherited and that people deficient in it should be discouraged from reproducing. The state sterilization that Justice Oliver Wendell...
...argue that by luring the government into the case and helping the FBI set up a sting operation, Avery used the Economic Espionage Act as a competitive weapon. Avery Dennison, which denies those charges, says Four Pillars' suit is simply an attempt to "distract attention from its own criminal conduct...
...sexual modesty for young women [THE SEXES, March 1], you said some of the statements in the book seem naive. As a 45-year-old man, I beg to differ with you. Shalit doesn't seem naive to me. She exposes the emperor as having no clothes. Codes of conduct to prevent sexual harassment are obviously better than lawsuits after the fact. And although conservative writer Katie Roiphe complains about being "condescended to by a 23-year-old virgin," she deserves such treatment. The younger generation has paid its dues simply by surviving the mess we've left them...