Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like normal viruses, computer viruses need a host to survive and grow. This ideal host is the promiscuous floppy disk. Exchanging data with any desktop it comes across, the floppies can infect an entire computer lab, campus or the world...
Folkman's observation became his lifelongpursuit, but the scientific community scoffed athis endeavor. Folkman says this was a blessing indisguise because it enabled him to conductresearch without the competition of his peers.Dividing his time between the operating room andthe research laboratory, Folkman dashed from thehospital to the lab and back each...
...when you enter Harris' world is the smell, the stench of numerous cats and dogs in a cramped bungalow. This is laced with the subtler scent of a basement filled with dried foods, stockpiled for the aftermath of the coming race war. Enter Harris' bedroom and you will find lab equipment and a refrigerator, from which Harris pulls a sample of a growth medium for cultivating biological weapons. Talking of biologically induced mass death, he nonchalantly remarked to CNN producer Henry Schuster, "A terrorist would need very little of this...
...more than $5 billion this year on high-tech gadgets and training, and many educators think laptops rank among the most promising classroom gadgets. For one, they can be used by students in any class, at any time of day--a significant improvement, experts say, over the prevalent computer-lab model, where students spend an hour a week "learning computers" in a room full of desktops. Unlike clunky desktop machines, laptops are compact and portable, facilitating group work and field research. Knowing that all kids will have computers with them at home, teachers say, gives them flexibility in assigning homework...
...thousands of would-be parents who may not realize they have frozen embryos in storage. Billy's parents, who in 1989 spent $7,000 for the fertilization procedure that resulted in the birth of their first child, were not aware they had created any backup embryos until a lab notified them last year that it was holding three on ice. By then Billy's mother was 44 years old, though the embryos were those of a 36-year-old woman. Now she is the proud mother of fraternal twins born 7 1/2 years apart...