Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poetry can be startlingly vivid, and often very fine lines peer through the intimidating mass of bad ones. Almost every poem has a least one strong image or technical device which works well. Her best poem deals with an unpretentious subject: "A Child's Visit to the Biology Lab." When she describes formaldehyde jars, her use of simple detail works beautifully...
...simply that thousands of Americans, as teachers, nurses or lab workers, find more gratification in their work than they might have found in opportunities that would have paid them better. Partly from envy, such people may even scorn the compromises, shortcuts or betrayals on which (at least in their view) other successful careers are built. But there is more to it than envy. Such essential qualities as character, honor, decency, intelligence, lovableness, dependability, common sense, humor and perception are randomly dispersed in the population and do not necessarily ascend on a parallel curve with a man's economic status...
...like the moon and it isn't," said Donald E. Gault, one of the scientists monitoring the Mariner data at NASA'S Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. The pictures showed that Mercury's craters are much flatter and thinner-rimmed than the moon's and resemble giant pie pans-an indication that they may have been worn down by some yet-to-be-identified erosional process. Like most of their lunar counterparts, Mercury's craters were apparently created by impacts of asteroid-size chunks of material rather than by volcanic eruptions. Indeed, one crater...
...guidelines allowed a maximum of one-quarter teaching time. First-year graduate students in the sciences are exempted from the regulations because the science departments depend heavily on their direct lab work, and because teaching fellow jobs often form part of the support package offered to attract top graduate students in the sciences to Harvard...
Draper, a guidance and navigation lab that receives 85 per cent of its funds from the Department of Defense and helped develop the Polaris, Poseidon and Trident missiles, announced it was joining a Boston development firm in building a $30 million Technology Square complex that will keep about 2000 jobs in Cambridge...