Word: modern
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...addition to teaching History 1810, "South Asia from 1700 to 1947," this semester, Washbrook will teach a Core Curriculum course on modern India in the spring. Historical Studies A-32, "The Making of Modern India," will count for both Foreign Cultures and Historical Studies A. Washbrook is also involved with a comparative seminar on China and India at the Fairbank Center...
Behavioral practices, though clearly related to patterns of disease, are poorly understood in contemporary biomedicine. Modern medicine emphasizes treatment, cure and technology, but focuses relatively little attention on preventive medicine and health education...
...unfriended under a smouldering sky." Dalgliesh's assistant, Inspector Kate Miskin, provides a counterpoint to the Tory values exemplified by most of the characters on both sides of the law. Miskin has risen from a council-flat childhood to an imitation of chic affluence. A visitor to her sterile, modern apartment notes it is in "dull, orthodox, ghastly, conventional good taste." Like a Renaissance painter, James mischievously slips in a small, sharp portrait of herself as a "buxom grandmother, noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness of her craft...
...industrial struggles, even over supremacy in autos or steel, have ever been more important to the U.S. economy. "The semiconductor is at the heart of modern industrial processes," says Bruce Smart, the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for International Trade. A flood of low-priced chips from Japan has squeezed the profits of U.S. chipmakers so severely that many of them could fail, thus leaving the country dependent on foreign supplies for a strategic resource. Says Smart: "If we were to be forced out of business and had to buy our semiconductors from foreigners, they would in effect control...
Controlling the needle's height is a minute electric current that should not flow at all, according to classical physics. Reason: there is nothing to conduct electrons, the carriers of electric current, across the insulating vacuum that separates needle from surface. But modern quantum theory says that a few electrons will jump anyway. Indeed they do, and since the number that jump depends on the size of the gap, the microscope's circuitry can continuously readjust the needle's height by monitoring the amount of current flowing between its tip and the object. The device "is completely new," said...