Word: holing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, M.I.T. Physicist Eric R. Cosman, and colleagues at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital have now constructed a remarkable sensor that warns of pressure increases by means of radio telemetry. As the investigators explain in the Journal of Neurosurgery, they drill a small hole in the patient's skull and insert a piston so that its base rests on the brain's outer casing. Built into the piston is a miniature induction tuner. If pressure inside the cranium increases, it pushes the piston up a fraction of an inch, thus transmitting...
Helped along by the pneumatic drill offense of Cornell, the Harvard hockey team dug an even deeper hole for its waning playoff hopes with a 6-3 loss to the Big Red last night in Ithaca, New York...
...modern computers has been the magnetic core variety. It consists of thousands of tiny iron rings, each one encircling an intersection of two wires in a rectangular grid made up of thousands of wires. Depending on the direction of current in the two wires that pass through its hole, each doughnut is magnetized in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. This represents either a 1 or a 0-a "bit" (for binary digit) of information. Because each core has a specific location in the precisely designed grid, it can be "addressed" almost instantly: information can be read from any doughnut...
...keeps saying "I know, I know" and offering her Valium. He won't take his turn at cooking dinner either. Is he one of the nasties in the giblet-peddling ring? When the villains strap Bujold to the operating table for an appendectomy she needs like a hole in the abdomen, will she survive to put makeup on her scar? Finding out the answers is like having an inoculation: you get a little sick, but after that the odds are that you will have nothing at all to do with hospitals...
...Celtics are an accumulation of things I see across the board in the N.B.A.: no-cut contracts, big money. The system has created a Frankenstein, and he's finally turning on his maker. Younger players are very aware that they've got to put the ball in the hole, and if they do, it will result in substantial salary benefits. By the time they get to be professionals, it's difficult to convince them that basketball is a team sport and that guys play together...