Word: graspingly
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...circuit to circuit in microseconds can cope with the input and response time of dozens of human brains simultaneously," Biophysicist Sinsheimer laments. Besides, the brain can call up only a limited amount of stored information at a time to focus it on a particular problem. And while it can grasp as many as 50 bits of visual information at once, it cannot file away more than 10 of them per second for later reference...
...determined by only one gene, while polygenic traits may be determined by several hundred thousand genes. The recent isolation and synthesis of single bacterial genes does not indicate that isolation or synthesis of a specific group of human genes determining a polygenic trait is within the experimenter's easy grasp...
...proportion of students intending to go to graduate schools dropped from 74% in 1966 to 46% in 1970. While the idea once seemed willfully eccentric, a number of Harvard graduates are going into manual trades or becoming clerks or driving cabs-doing anything to grasp that "real life" from which they feel culturally separated. Against the traditional American grain, at least some are choosing downward mobility...
Died. Charles W. Engelhard, 54, lavish-living multimillionaire who may have served as the model for the central character in Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger: of an apparent heart attack: in Boca Grande, Fla. Engelhard ballooned an inheritance of $20 million into an estimated $250 million by his grasp of the potential of precious metals in technology. Equally successful in racing, he spent close to $10 million for top-quality thoroughbreds, had 213 victories in the U.S. in nine years. After his acquaintance Fleming published Goldfinger, Engelhard emphasized the obvious by once showing up for a party...
...mercifully avoids the rah-rah, gung-Ho, Holy-Ho rhetoric of the New Left, Halberstam makes it clear that he admires his subject. The value of his book lies in the fact that it briskly enumerates Ho's strengths and U.S. weaknesses, Ho's sure manipulative grasp of Vietnamese xenophobia, his deceptive simplicity, as well as his complete dedication to the cause of an independent Viet...