Word: knowed
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...alone. Important advances also occur as ingenious experimenters devise ever more clever methods for increasing the accuracy of their observations. The Nobel Prize in Physics this year celebrates the contributions of three scientists who have spent their careers elevating precision measurement to a high art. "It's nice to know that this type of work can be appreciated," said one of the recipients, distinguished Harvard University physicist Norman Ramsey. Upon hearing the news, Ramsey, an athletic 74-year-old who recently returned from a trek in Nepal, admits that he was startled. "Are you sure?" he asked the first reporter...
What the assassination ban amounts to in practice is a rule against killing people whose names you know. Killing anonymous soldiers or even civilians is merely war. C'est la guerre. Killing someone with a name attached is assassination. Not done, old chap...
...that man up" -- although "I don't think any of us would have shed tears if that had happened." A senior White House official said, "We were showing him that we could get people close to him." Oh, well, that's O.K., then. As long as we didn't know Gaddafi had a daughter, it's fine to kill her. Just don't kill...
America's high-tech companies do not have to look back: they know the Japanese are coming. U.S. computer-chip manufacturers, concerned that their survival is threatened, have gone to Congress for protection. And fear is rising that if the chipmakers go down, it will be only a matter of time before Japan overtakes the U.S. in the computer business. That would put an end to America's high-tech supremacy...
Gilder's arguments, while forceful, are not always persuasive. He seems to forget that Japan, an island nation rich in know-how and poor in resources, is itself a prime beneficiary of the triumph of ideas over matter. The Japanese may not be also-rans in software and custom chips forever. But at a time when so many books talk only about what is wrong with the U.S., Gilder's optimism about the future of American high-tech is refreshing...