Word: freds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week in the Pioneer control room at NASA's Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, California, project manager Fred Wirth watched Pioneer's data, in the form of multicolored blocks of numbers flashing across a computer screen. To make the best use of the spacecraft's dwindling power, he has shut down all but three of its 11 scientific instruments, and by early next year only one--Van Allen's cosmic ray detector--will be able to function. Citing operational costs and the diminishing scientific return, NASA has ordered Wirth to halt all communications with Pioneer next year...
...when his superiors disagreed with him. "He was an impossible kind of guy to work with," says an official involved in the World Trade Center case. "If you were doing an investigation in a schoolhouse and there was an alphabet above the board and L and Z were missing, Fred would not venture an opinion that that had been an alphabet...
...FRED HEINEMAN (R) District 4 (Central--Raleigh; Chapel Hill...
After four terms in the House, Price lost his seat to Fred Heineman by only 1,215 votes. But after two years away from Washington, he says he has a better understanding of the growing restlessness among some voters, including their concern that Heineman--whose Congressional salary is $133,000--calls himself "lower middle class." A good turnout at the polls next week could be Price's ticket back to Congress...
...Fred Martin, a research scientist who works with Borovoy, says the tags have many promising uses. In a large corporate setting, they could help build consensus around controversial ideas. Another project, launched last week, uses the tags to help demonstrate to high school kids how easily diseases like aids can spread. Of course, Thinking Tags have an application that might seem particularly marketable to computer types more comfortable in cyberspace than in boy-meets-girl realspace. "The one that comes up 99% of the time is the singles bar," says Borovoy. "So if you don't mention that...