Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loret M. Ruppe will detail the Leadership for Peace campaign at 4 p.m. in Longfellow 100. The campaign will encourage universities, civic groups, labor and social organizations to provide volunteers to the 26-year-old organization which sends technicians, scientists and laymen to more than 60 developing countries...
Even so, climate modelers admit, building a completely realistic mock earth is an impossibly tall order. "You divide the world into a bunch of little boxes," explains Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The size of the geographic box -- the degree of detail called for -- limits the model. Smaller grids dramatically increase the number-crunching power required. "The state of the art would be to get down to small areas so we can say what's going to happen in Omaha," says Livermore's Stanley Grotch. "The models just aren't that good...
...have to have a lot of patience. The recipe for Pavloff's original rabbit dish is seven pages long. It describes in detail how to prepare the rabbit in three ways: rabbit loin stuffed with black truffles, rabbit leg stuffed with foie gras (fattened duck liver), and quenelles (rabbit made into a mousse and boiled in red wine...
Venturing into an untapped scientific field, Gilbert plans to start a company this fall aimed at mapping every single gene in the human body. Scientists say the project to decipher the human genome--the 100,000 to 300,000 genes that shape every detail of our bodies--represents an extraordinary effort comparable to the Apollo space program in the 1960s...
...warn him that a story in the forthcoming edition of TIME identified the Dukakis campaign as the source of the video. Dukakis somewhat cryptically told Sasso to "check out" the story. But the Governor, who likes to portray himself as a hands-on manager who pays close attention to detail, overlooked one rather salient question. By his own account, he never asked Sasso if the story was true...