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John Weber, one of the many second year students already plotting plans for the future, argued that precise research yields sound employment decisions. "You can tell it's a good firm by running your fingernail along the embossment of the stationery and seeing how much noise it makes...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Prestigious Firms Court Students | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

...make things small: the microscopic electrical circuits that form the core of computers, calculators, missile control panels, televisions, video games and all other electronic products. Called semiconductors, these circuits are most commonly etched in invisibly intricate detail on thin silicon chips as small as a baby's fingernail. Marvels in miniature, the chips can execute commands, perform complex calculations and store libraries of information. What iron and steel were to the Industrial Revolution, semiconductors are to the Electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Fight over Tiny Chips | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...past few years, some dentists have added another step: bonding a thin laminate veneer, a prefabricated plastic shield much like an artificial fingernail, to the front of the tooth. Even with a veneer, the cost per tooth is one-third to a half that of capping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Taking Stock of Bonding | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...hospitals now use the Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit, named after Louis Vitullo, a former Chicago police sergeant who helped devise it. The kit comes in a book-size cardboard box and includes slides, evidence bags and labels. Nurses and doctors use the contents to collect blood samples, hairs, fingernail scrapings and bodily smears. While it is still too early to gauge the success of the kit, convictions were obtained in three early test cases in which it was used. Yet a lack of funds for the kits, which cost $5.25 each, may stop their national distribution. Much of the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefs: Briefs: Aug. 3, 1981 | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...fingernail of the bejewelled person shown snorting cocaine was bitten to the quick. Do coke users become anxious, or do anxious people become coke users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 27, 1981 | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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