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Technical writers use TeX for another important reason: it's great for composing mathematical equations. Most commercial DTP products pale next to TeX when it comes to printing out, say, a Fast Fourier Transform equation in a way appealing to most readers...
...expected him to receive the prize many years ago," said Shaw G. Huang, who serves as the lab's managing director. "In 1965, he became the first person to demonstrate that the Fourier Transformation of NMR could be achieved. Ever since, many of the applications in biological systems have been based on his principles...
...scores were saved. On South Dakota's huge Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, volunteers brought firewood to one isolated compound just in time: the elderly Indian women had begun to burn their clothing for heat. Jack Fourier, a local rancher, donated a frozen brahma bull to hungry Sioux 50 miles away, and used his chain saw to carve up the carcass. "In weather like this," said Fourier, "people got to pitch in for each other." In northern Indiana, people did just that. Paramedic Robert Hickman flagged down a freight train and highballed it 3½ miles to pick...
Regeneration Through Exile; Hawthorne, Brook Farm and Fourier--Robert Richardson, professor of American Literature, University of Denver, Boylston Auditorium...
...Friedrich Engels echoed the early 19th century French socialist Charles Fourier in declaring: "...in any given society the degree of women's emancipation is the natural measure of the general emancipation." If the number of women in government is an accurate gauge of women's freedom, the level of general emancipation in Massachusetts would have to be called slavery...