Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anticipated that the media have been writing about it for weeks--even though it's yet to happen. We've had our excuses. There was the dubious, theoretical 10,000, reached March 12 by adding individual peak prices for each component to come up with Dow 10,043. Never mind that at no point during the day was the average near that level. Then came the modestly credible intraday benchmark last Tuesday, when the Dow briefly traded at 10,002 based on actual prices before ending the day much lower. On Friday the Dow traded well above the magical mark...
...WHEN SOME PAGES GO UNNUMBERED: "If there was some consistency about the lack of numbers," wrote one frustrated reader, "I wouldn't mind so much. If yours was the only publication that practiced this insane policy, I wouldn't mind. But there isn't, you aren't, and I do." The reason for this irritant, in a nutshell, is that our magazine's ad content can vary from region to region of the country, leaving us unable to put numbers on those pages that don't appear in the entire circulation run. Trust us on this; we're not trying...
Space and time are relative. Our behavior is ruled by our subconscious mind. The most powerful machines are built one atom at a time. When the history of human civilization is rewritten a few centuries hence, the name Eric Drexler just might appear alongside those of Einstein and Freud. Drexler, 43, is the founding father of nanotechnology, the idea of using individual atoms and molecules to build practical machines...
...would appear on the doorstep of fellow mathematicians without warning--a frail, disheveled, elderly man, hopped up on amphetamines and wearing a ratty raincoat--and announce, in a thick Hungarian accent, "My mind is open." For a day, or a week or a month, the man or woman who answered the knock would have to take nonstop care of this helpless guest who couldn't figure out how to cut a grapefruit or wash his underwear--and in return would be permitted the exhausting, exhilarating experience of following the thought processes of Paul Erdos, the most prolific and arguably...
...drawing board awaiting funding. But through the Cousteau Society, which he founded in 1973 and which continues to operate under the direction of his widow Francine, Captain Planet's legacy lives on in the form of films, books and a thousand azure images etched indelibly on the mind...