Word: pioneers
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...backward into a small, smelly elevator, while other people used escalators. Martinez, who also rides BART, feels safe there, thanks to bumps, or "edge detection strips" that warn the blind away from the edge of the platforms. Despite the tight-elevator problem, bart is regarded as a disability-rights pioneer. "It was such a treat to take this train when I came to California years ago," says Breslin, who was raised in the Midwest. "I'd never lived anywhere where there was access...
Unfortunately, this electronics pioneer is also an industry leader in losing money. Last week, as the company prepared to report another quarterly loss outstripping its entire 1994 deficit of $14.2 million, the last U.S.-owned firm that still makes TV sets (albeit in Mexico) signed a deal under which it will become a subsidiary of South Korea's LG Electronics. The LG Group, formerly Lucky-Goldstar, thus became South Korea's first conglomerate to establish a major beachhead in American consumer electronics. The firm, whose TV sets captured just 1.7% of the U.S. market last year, could hardly contain...
...Cambridge house where a Black civil rights pioneer lived as a Harvard student is up for sale, and the mayor wants to organize a group...
...Warwick Peacock was on Christiaan Barnard's original heart-transplant team in South Africa, but he eventually found heart transplants too routine to present sufficient challenge. In 1986 he came to ucla Medical Center to pioneer new techniques in brain surgery. Last May he faced an unusual challenge: a six-year-old girl suffering epileptic seizures so severe and unremitting that they could be relieved only by removal of part of her brain. First her brain was mapped by a positron-emission tomography scanner, a machine invented at ucla; then those readings were matched against others provided by a more...
Hamilton was known throughout her career as a pioneer in the study of occupational diseases. In 1911, her report on the use of lead in industry gained her acclaim as a scholar...