Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electronic periodic table for use in his general chemistry classes. Another chemist, Allan Smith, designed a "molecular editor" that can display, rearrange and rotate crystal structures made up of as many as 99 atoms. Mathematician Bernard Kolman created a program that will solve complex matrix algebra problems and explain each step along the way. Electrical Engineer Banu Onaral developed a series of programs that generate wave forms on the screen and manipulate them according to the basic rules of signal processing. "These are very theoretical subjects that require some brain gymnastics to be understood," says Onaral. "The computer can help...
...fragmentation of the P.L.O. in the wake of its 1982 expulsion from Lebanon may help explain the increased violence. Now dispersed from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, the P.L.O.'s young guerrillas are becoming bored after three years of relative inactivity. Says a P.L.O. expert in Tunis: "Launching a raid against Israel, however dangerous, is better than sitting around in a camp in North Yemen...
...hillside under Mameyes suddenly buckled. The slide started near the top of the slope and gathered force in an avalanche of devastation. A shear of heavy clay and loosened limestone outcroppings tore through the flimsy homes, crushing many like so much matchwood and trapping their occupants. "I cannot explain how we are alive," recounted Julio Maldonado, who with his wife and six children escaped the swath of the slide. "First the entrance wall fell off, and then the other walls fell off. And then we were sliding down, sandwiched between the floor and the ceiling...
...begin and end with this cartoon of frothing male vituperation does nothing to reveal how a Strindberg play can still electrify an audience in 1985, or to explain why writers as different as Kafka and Camus, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre have read Strindberg with admiration bordering on reverence...
...protesters shouted at Fitzgerald, calling on him to explain CIA activities in the Third World and elsewhere...