Word: modularness
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...cookie-cutter model in France, where nuclear power accounts for 80% of the electricity, any new generation of nuclear plant in the U.S. would have to be based on a standard design instead of the current hodgepodge of complicated configurations. Westinghouse Electric's new, simplified unit, for instance, is modular and can practically be put together on an assembly line, relying more on natural forces like gravity and less on moving parts...
...cookie-cutter model in France, where nuclear power accounts for 80% of the electricity, any new generation of nuclear plant in the U.S. would have to be based on a standard design instead of the current hodgepodge of complicated configurations. Westinghouse Electric's new, simplified unit, for instance, is modular and can practically be put together on an assembly line, relying more on natural forces like gravity and less on moving parts...
...effort to erase their club's history, management has changed its name to Greengrass. Everything else is the same. Customers are still greeted when they enter the joint by a maître d' in an ill-fitting tuxedo. The lounge area is still dark. The black leather modular couches are still so mushy that customers and hostesses almost collapse into each other when they sit down. There are a dozen small tables, each just big enough for the decanter of Suntory whiskey, the water syphon and ice bucket, all of which are provided as part of the basic...
...deal about Destiny - that experiments can last longer? It's not just that. Destiny really does represent an advance over the facilities on Mir. When U.S. astronauts flew aboard Mir in the 1990s they were working with 20-year-old technology. Because the science racks on Destiny are modular, they can be returned to Earth on shuttles and replaced with newer technology whenever that is practical. If people are still living on the ISS 25 years from now, they won't be working with technology from 1995, when was Boeing started building the module...
...story of Jimmy Corrigan, both sad and mordantly hilarious (e.g. he is neither smart nor a kid, except emotionally), involves his visit to the father who abandoned him as a child. Among airport bars, convenience stores and modular housing Jimmy becomes involved in the lives of his father, his black adopted sister, Amy, and his grandfather, also named Jimmy. About two thirds of the way through we are given a lengthy flashback of grandpa Jimmy's childhood where we discover a forgotten secret. By the end we have read a small-scale history of America's last one hundred years...