Word: pioneers
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Although interactive programming is the committee's goal, pioneer broadcasts will consist of non-interactive programs such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Television Organization's soap opera "Ivory Tower" and Harvard course lectures...
DIED. GEORGE ROBERT STIBITZ, 90, computer pioneer; in Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1937, working in his kitchen, Stibitz cobbled together a primitive adding device out of dry-cell batteries, metal strips from a tobacco can, flashlight bulbs and telephone wires. Many consider it the earliest antecedent to the digital computer. Frustrated as a Bell Labs researcher, Stibitz eventually joined the faculty at Dartmouth...
Undeterred by the skeptics, the medical pioneer forged ahead and joined forces with a private company to develop his treatment. Now Salk, 80, may get a chance to prove he has one more medical miracle up the sleeve of his lab coat. Last week an expert advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the agency allow Salk to test his AIDS vaccine on 5,000 volunteers. If the FDA agrees, Salk's preparation would be the first AIDS vaccine to undergo a large-scale trial...
...understatement to say that it is a rare to find Asian-Americans who excel on the football field. Most sports fans would be hard-pressed to name even one Asian in the NFL. Yet Cheng said he never noticed he was a bit of a pioneer, breaking Asian stereotypes on the football field, until his senior year when his government teacher discussed stereotypes and discrimination with him and a Korean friend...
Patient 001, a 30-year-old blue-collar worker, was not an obvious candidate to become an abortion pioneer. "I was brought up in a Christian home," she told TIME. "My family was pro-life, so I always said 'I could never do that.' " But by the time Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa announced on Oct. 27 that it was looking for volunteers, she found herself pregnant and desperate. Married, with two children and "a complicated domestic situation" she prefers not to discuss, Patient 001 and her husband decided that she should take part in the trials. "I was terrified...