Word: point
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more positive result was generated by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who decided to challenge an industry defined by creativity--advertising. The researchers noticed that a large minority of prize-winning ads followed a simple formula: find the product's characteristic that is its selling point, and use images to emphasize that characteristic in the ad. A similar contest found that the ads the researchers' computers produced were generally as good as those of professional ad agencies, while they far surpassed the efforts of human amateurs. For instance, while a human suggested a picture of the walls...
Northeastern has a three-point lead over four teams--No. 4 Brown, No. 6 Dartmouth, Providence and Niagara...
Princeton (4-3-2, 3-3-1), all alone in ninth place, still remains a question mark at this point. The Tigers tied Northeastern, but then they lost close games to Providence, UNH and St. Lawrence...
...committee, headed by chapter president and Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, selected the honorees out of an original pool of 96 students who were chosen on the basis of grade point average...
...experimental batch of polio vaccine manufactured in part from chimpanzee tissue that may have been infected. "This theory is partially testable, because there are still some stocks of the oral polio vaccine in question" says TIME science correspondent Christine Gorman. "But some people may ask what the point of conducting such tests would be, since there's no question of malice and the answer has no implications for medicine and science today - you're talking about a technology of 50 years ago. Now, genetic engineering allows us to create in controlled laboratory conditions vaccines and drugs once made from animal...