Word: papering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of scientific conduct (or misconduct, depending on whom you talk to) is the accusations that a 1986 article in Cell magazine contained fudged data. Dr. David Baltimore, the Nobel prizewinning director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, was one of six authors of the research paper on genetic transplants. Although Baltimore was never formally accused of any wrongdoing, a congressional investigation found the scientific equivalent of a smoking gun in the laboratory of one of his co-authors. Their research project was being funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health...
...Will the paper be around another 100 years?" he wonders. "Will the town be recognizable in 2089?" He thinks so, but he is troubled. So are all the people who still make up a rural culture of farms and small towns from the Appalachians to the Rockies, for all of our history a taproot that nourished the other branches. The crisis of the farms themselves has passed for now, but around Greenfield's town square the economic strain has worsened. A hardware store, a drugstore, a grocery store, a Ford dealership have all closed within three years. County residents...
...month of reckoning for the Federal Government, as a new fiscal year begins and the budget is hammered out. In the next four weeks, Congress and the Bush Administration must raise the federal debt ceiling to $3.1 trillion, find a way to reduce next year's deficit -- on paper at least -- to $110 billion, and scrounge for funds to finance the drug war, educational reform and cleanups of the HUD mess and even of the storm-ravaged South Carolina coast...
LOVE LETTERS. Kate Nelligan and Treat Williams are this week's stars in the rotating off-Broadway cast of A.R. Gurney's disarming tale of a half-century relationship lived out largely via pen and paper...
...surely as the Ghost of Christmas Future saved Scrooge by rattling the miser's tight soul until it cracked. A satellite photograph is technology, and so are the differential equations spinning inside a Cray supercomputer. There is technology in the wobbly rising trace on a piece of graph paper. There is technology in a handful of numbers...