Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rescued from the bowels of Boylston Hall, students who frequent the Language Lab will enjoy faster, computerized services, more comfortable chairs and a view of the Yard when the sixth floor of Lamont Library becomes a linguistic penthouse next year...
...planning for years, the lab's move will be accompanied by the digitizing of its most frequently used tapes so they can be run from a huge, 1,000-gigabyte server, improving sound quality and eliminating competition over what is now a limited number of tapes...
With more floor space, the lab will offer expanded services such as international broadcasts with wireless headphones; reading areas with lounging chairs and foreign periodicals; video viewing rooms; space designed for practicing foreign-language skits; and speech-to-text software for students who are unable for medical reasons to type their papers...
Anyone who doubts that genes influence behavior should see the mice in Marc Caron's lab. These tireless rodents race around their cages for hours on end. They lose weight because they rarely stop to eat, and then they drop from exhaustion because they are unable to sleep...
...would not want to work in a lab of someone who has put themself in such an outstanding position?" Weber says...