Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to go to bed, but you have a paper due the next day. Your printer is making funny noises again, so you head off to your House computer lab to find that, of the two computers not taken by people writing e-mail, only one of them is working, and it doesn't matter anyway because the printer is out of paper. Sound familiar...
...mainly interested in raising the quality of house computing across campus, and making each house as equal as possible," Osterberg says. "We try to give each House lab seven Mac or PC computers, as well as a laser printer...
...massive U.S. attack at the moment," says Dowell, "but a surgical air strike could occur at any time if it were warranted." If the U.S. were to push the button the most likely targets would be Iraqi communications and military units. The real source of contention -- biological weapons lab -- would probably not be hit. "The equipment in such labs is dual purpose," says Dowell. "Unless the facilities are turned around for military use, they are used to produce harmless civilian products." A surprise bombing raid on such a lab would destroy nothing but might kill innocent people. All of which...
...Nylon 1939, by DuPont, at lab led by Wallace Hume Carothers...
BAKELITE Leo Baekeland was hoping to create a synthetic shellac when he mixed together carbolic acid and formaldehyde in his Yonkers, N.Y., lab in 1907. Instead he created the first totally synthetic plastic-phenolic resin and changed the world. Some mistake...