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...chemical-engineering major before he headed west in 1960 for his Ph.D. in physics. After that, it was on to co-found Intel, the company that first made the microprocessors that enabled the computer, which enabled practically everything we do today--except, perhaps, tending to the sick. "In a modern ICU, there is data acquisition on top of data acquisition, and the data-collection method is a clipboard," says Grove, eliciting a chuckle from the crowd. "Show me one more industry where that's how it works...
Grove has been agitating about health care since the mid-'90s, when his battle with prostate cancer--which he waged scientifically, as though trying to solve a heat-dispersion problem on a chip--opened his eyes to modern medicine's digital lag. "We are engineers," he says to the room. "We take the problem, decompose it and solve it." And not just any engineers, but engineers at City College--an up-by-your-bootstraps institution famed for offering the disadvantaged a gateway to the middle class. Grove, who slipped out of his native Hungary during the 1956 revolution...
...Just as Copernicus disproved the medieval notion that the sun revolves around the earth, Caltech disproves the modern dogma that the survival of private education revolves around admissions breaks for the rich,” Golden writes...
...Paloma Saez's internship hadn't been paid, she says, "my parents would have liked me to take a job on the side." As a high schooler interested in both art and science, Saez, 16, interned this summer at the art conservation lab of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. For $9 an hour for four days a week, she helped test and catalog materials used in sculptures...
...childbirth is very out these days in Tehran. The procedure is quickly edging out the nose job as the dominant medical trend among Iranians, a people very fond of surgery. No longer the provenance of last-minute complications or doctors' liability fears, Caesarean delivery is viewed here as the modern woman's choice. An Iranian politician I interviewed recently even worked the normalcy of a C-section into a metaphor describing Iran's nuclear ambitions. "Nuclear capacity is like a knife," he told me. "It can be used in a standard operation, say a C-section...