Word: modularity
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...mathematicians who gathered in a Cambridge University lecture room last Monday had no idea that they were about to witness history. They had come to hear Andrew Wiles, an English colleague based at Princeton University, give three one-hour lectures on "Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations," an abstract topic even by the rarefied standards of higher math. By the end of the first hour, though, they knew something was up. Recalls Nigel Boston, a visiting mathematician at Cambridge's Isaac Newton Institute: "We realized where he could be heading. People were giving each other wide-eyed looks...
...newest models range from their limited release Fireworks Speckled collection of luncheon plates and butter dishes to their updated old standby, the ever-popular Modular Mates--standard box-shaped containers for dry goods...
Bogosian's Sex Drugs Rock & Roll, handsomely filmed by John McNaughton, is a 10-pack of modular monologues. The subjects don't interact with one another; they shout at invisible targets. But it's soon manifest that in their common rancor, they constitute a lost tribe of American masculinity. The street stud, the down-home Don Juan, the vicious entertainment lawyer, a couple or three psychopaths -- all plan their killer strategies and lullaby themselves with fantasies of apocalypse and revenge. Bogosian rarely sentimentalizes his creatures or provides the familiar monologue arc of comedy, poignancy, comedy. As writer he creates...
...plans for power stations that are simpler to make, easier to run and demonstrably safer than the nuclear piles now in operation. While Westinghouse and General Electric are concentrating on improving their water-cooled reactors, many nuclear scientists are taking a different approach. One design, the so-called modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (MHTGR), has even won grudging support from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the most technically competent of the major antinuclear groups...
...revival knows no geographical boundaries. In 1985 Atlantans voted for a $38 million bond referendum that expanded the central library, constructed twelve new branches, started six modular libraries in public housing projects and bought $9 million in books. Washington State voters have gone to the polls at least nine times in the past five years to support bond issues aimed at renovating or building libraries. The budget for the New York Public Library soared from $60 million in 1981 to $127 million in 1989, thanks largely to government funds and the generosity of private donors. Even in oil-dependent Tulsa...