Word: gingerã
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Last Monday the inventor Dean Kamen finally unveiled his famous “Ginger?? secret project. As many people correctly guessed last January, Ginger is a new electric scooter officially called Segway and notable primarily for its gyroscope-powered, automatic propulsion system. Step onto a Segway, think about going forward, and the gyroscopes under your feet sense a slight forward tilt in your posture and promptly whisk you onwards...
...rain on anybody’s parade here, but when I found out what that “Ginger?? invention was yesterday my first thought was, “Is that...
...Fagan Ginger, the widow of the former professor, Board of Overseers President Sharon Gagnon wrote that she would not presume to “second-guess the motives or judgments of individuals in that difficult time.” In light of Harvard’s overt misbehavior in Ginger??s case, we adamantly disagree with Gagnon’s neutrality and ask the Board to admit that Harvard erred...
...Ginger to either divulge his political allegiances or resign. Unwilling to comply with the coercion, he immediately submitted his letter of resignation. Harvard gave the Ginger family the monetary equivalent of the two remaining months of his contract, contingent on their rapid departure from Massachusetts. The quality of Raymond Ginger??s teaching and scholarship was never challenged, and the University committed a grave sin against academic freedom by forcing him out on the basis of his political views...
...scholars and those who lived through the period, Harvard’s action against Ginger??though extreme—is typical of what they view as a general mistreatment of suspected Communists...