Word: controllable
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Though contraception is available -- prescribed by a doctor with parental consent -- Carrera knows that access to birth control is not enough. "When kids are empowered with information and stimulated by hope for the future, it has a contraceptive effect," says Carrera. "Education. Employment. Their own bank accounts. Good health. Family involvement. Self-esteem. These are also contraceptives. It's the total fabric that is important." Carrera also teaches them how to play sports, like squash, that rely on individual discipline and control. "Whenever you posit a single solution to a complex problem, you are not as successful...
...Monday was a sad day in American computing," declared Doyle Knight, president of New Jersey's John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center. What dismayed Knight was the announcement last week by Control Data, based in Minneapolis, that it would halt its money-losing six-year foray into the growing world market for supercomputers. The decision leaves Cray Research, its crosstown rival and the industry leader, as the only U.S. supercomputer maker at a time when Japan's industry is moving vigorously into the field...
...Cray in 1976, supercomputers possess vast number- crunching power, which has become increasingly valued in applications ranging from oil exploration to the design of new drugs. Supercomputer sales are expected to reach $1.2 billion this year on shipments of 130 to 150 machines, up from $925 million in 1988. Control Data had sold 34 of its ETA- model supercomputers, or about 12% of the world's installed machines (vs. 63% for Cray...
Faced with so much adversity and so much social control, the players rely on the only thing they can be sure of: their skills as baseball players...
Baseball's social control cannot diffuse the individual achievements on the diamond. With each hit, catch, throw and pitch, the players regain their humanity...