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...fuller sense, however, it was America's 1950s economic boom that proved the Interstates' true progenitor. The Federal-Aid Highway Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by Eisenhower on June 29,1956, allocated $25 billion to pay 90% of the costs of a 41,000-mile "National System of Interstate and Defense Highways," to be completed...
...many points (Social Security and the minimum wage, for example) that it would take a generation and another Roosevelt, T.R.'s fifth cousin Franklin, to bring them into being. In hopes of protecting the investing public from swindlers, the Progressives called for federal regulation of stock offerings and fuller disclosure of corporate financial transactions, ideas that found their way into the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...dangerous to public opinion,” according to Tran Quang Tuan, a leader among local refugees.Cheu, who had spent time in a Vietnamese reeducation camp, was found innocent by reason of insanity the following May.And in what appeared to be another act of arson in October, the Margaret Fuller House sustained severe damage.The Phillips Brooks House Association had recruited Harvard students to organize an after-school teenage drop-in program at the Cambridge neighborhood center before the blaze, which opened according to schedule in November. At the time, Lorraine Y. Scott—a member of the House?...
...discoveries, many physicists thought quantum field theory had to be discarded, because so many of its calculations generated infinite values—which are physically impossible. Wilson’s RG theory not only explained these infinite values, it showed that they contained information which allowed for a fuller understanding of the relevant physics.Wilson was among the physicists of the 1970s who developed Standard Theory, the current model of particle physics that refined quantum field theory. Michael E. Peskin ’73, who was Wilson’s doctoral advisee at Cornell and is now a professor...
...refurbishing and reselling firm, jumped into the recycling business in 2005 to end those practices. "We used to work with companies that claimed that all materials were properly recycled in the U.S. But on at least three occasions, I watched them load computers onto export containers," says Dan Fuller, EPC's president. EPC "demanufactures" 150 tons of equipment a month for about $10 per computer. Workers take apart monitors by hand, sending the leaded glass tubing to a Missouri smelting operation. A hulking baler crunches plastic hardware to a tenth its size, and metals are extracted and sold...