Word: keys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...misery loved the company. The years of anguish produced rich rewards made possible by some neck-snapping breakthroughs. The key to the success dated back to an insight Moore had in 1965. Sitting down with a piece of log paper and a ruler, he drew a simple graph. On the vertical axis he tracked the growing complexity of silicon chips, along the bottom he ticked off time, and then he plotted the points out a few years. The resulting line, he saw, showed that chip power doubled roughly every 24 months, even as costs fell by half. The rule (amended...
...that can be passed from person to person, without an animal intermediary, and if that altered virus is highly contagious, Hong Kong's tiny outbreak could grow into a global pandemic. It is a long shot, but influenza viruses have performed such feats in the past, usually by trading key genes with other influenza viruses. These mix-and-match sessions seem to happen most often in pigs but can also occur in other mammals, including people...
That's not to say the U.S. got everything it wanted. Thanks to tough conditions demanded by both the Europeans and the developing world, key details of the emissions-trading proposal never did get worked out. The delegates also couldn't agree on what sanctions might be levied against countries that fail to meet their targets. And a clause saying that developing countries could voluntarily sign on to emission-reduction goals was still too strong for China and others to swallow--a problem that, if not solved, will make ratification by the U.S. Senate next to impossible...
...time without benefit of Frankensteinian science--just pituitary, brain and gonadal equipment. In sheer numbers, the toad puts us to shame. Isn't it high time we acknowledge that septuplets are the result of scientific technology run amuck? With sheer numbers we relentlessly destroy our planet. JOHN E. SWISHER Key Largo...
...President Clinton's refusal to set a new deadline -- leaving open even the possibility that the U.S. commitment would outlast his time in office -- was probably wise; progress in the region, diplomats say, is still measured in inches. The key to defeating the enemies of peace in Bosnia may be to outlast them...