Word: designators
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...engineering Lucent into a technology highflyer from what was once Ma Bell's phonemaker. Lucent is now a leading global supplier of cell-phone networking gear and the digital-switching systems that are critical components of voice and data networks--you know, the Internet. She even helped design the red-swirl logo that marks Lucent as a leading-edge company...
...comes the iBook, Apple's "iMac to go," a clamshell-shaped laptop that promises to do for the portable market what iMac did for the desktop--sell like crazy and leave the rest of the industry playing catch-up. The iBook, available this September, morphs iMac's elegant, curvilinear design and Life Savers colors into an affordable portable (see chart) with a bunch of minor innovations and one major one: AirPort, a PC version of the cordless phone. AirPort's snap-in card and UFO-shaped "base station" (a $400 optional package) allow up to 10 users to swap data...
...been all but convicted in the media, with Energy Secretary Bill Richardson ordering him fired from Los Alamos and the Cox Report alleging grave breaches of U.S. nuclear security. But once the dust had settled, it hadn?t been clearly established that China had actually stolen comprehensive design information, and the only substantive charge against Lee was that he had breached security procedures by downloading sensitive information from a secure computer system onto an unsecured one ?- an action his lawyers argue should be understood as an absent-minded oversight by a man whose job involved downloading large bodies of data...
Eating right to prevent heart disease may seem complicated and confusing, but it's a breeze compared with trying to design an anticancer diet. Cardiovascular disease is relatively simple; it's the result of normal bodily processes taken to the extreme. Cancer, by contrast, involves changes in the programming of DNA within the nuclei of individual cells. Beyond that, heart disease is an illness that affects a single organ system, while cancer is dozens of different diseases that target body parts as radically different as the brain, breast and bone...
...worst cases are usually referred. By examining a broad cross section of adults in the long-running Framingham Heart Study, Dr. Lisa Freed and her colleagues found only 2.4% of subjects had mitral-valve prolapse and that half those cases consisted of less harmful variations on normal cardiac design. They also found the condition to be equally uncommon among women...