Word: neumanns
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This year, SafetyWalk is looking not only to attract participants but also to increase awareness that such a resource exists said John S. Neumann '01, last year's co-director...
...just assume that people know about SafetyWalk," Neumann said...
...nurse in a Milwaukee hospital for severely wounded soldiers, Amanda Starkey suffers some sort of nervous indisposition and goes home to rest at her parents' farm in rural Wisconsin. They have both recently died, victims of the 1918 flu epidemic. The only people living there now are Mathilda Neumann, Amanda's younger sister, and Mattie's three-year-old daughter Ruth. Carl Neumann, the husband and father, is still recovering in France from his wartime injuries. And then, suddenly, Mattie too is dead, having fallen through the ice on a nearby lake and drowned...
...modern technology to end droughts, banish hail and improve meteorological conditions in countless other ways. At one point, pioneering chemist Irving Langmuir suggested that it would prove easier to change the weather to our liking than to predict its duplicitous twists and turns. The great mathematician John von Neumann even calculated what mounting an effective weather-modification effort would cost the U.S.--about as much as building the railroads, he figured, and worth incalculably more...
...National Center for Atmospheric Research, for one, fervently believes the answer to our problems lies not just in improved knowledge of the climate system but in technological advances that could counter--and perhaps reverse--present trends. In other words, the farfetched dreams that prominent scientists like Von Neumann once harbored have not died. Rather they have been transformed and, in the process, become more urgent...