Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monster's first assignment, a top-secret numerical simulation for the still untested hydrogen bomb. Every time a tube burned out, which happened twice a day at the start, a technician had to rummage among the tangle of wires to locate and replace the dead component. To prevent rodents from nibbling at ENIAC and destroying vital parts, Eckert recalled at the anniversary party, the scientists captured some mice, starved them for several days and then fed them bits of the insulating materials used in the machine. Any pieces the mice seemed to favor were removed from ENIAC and replaced with...
Better boxes, harsher punishments, and more police won't prevent future Tylenol poisonings--or muggings, murders, and rapes, for that matter. A renaissance of the small community in America will...
...club I have these cold, icy stares that usually prevent rude comments. I walk around in an obnoxious way, sort of like 'I'm a personality here,"' Kelly says...
Such concerns, though understandable, prevent the divestment movement from becoming just that--a movement. The civil rights protesters did not confine their concerns to specific states. If Bull Connor hosed protesters in Alabama, protesters in Mississippi did not keep quiet. Fighting for a cause meant supporting others involved in the same struggle. Each protester knew that he had more than justice on his side--in a real sense he had an entire movement of dedicated protesters prepared to support him and he would do anything to help any of them if that became necessary...
...DATE, DIVESTMENT activists on various campuses have shown little if any solidarity. Why has Harvard's Southern Africa Solidarity Committee not organized a demonstration in support of the 20 students recently arrested in Hanover for trying to prevent the demolition of a shanty? At the very least, the Harvard divestment movement should have publicly expressed its outrage at the midnight raid on the Dartmouth shanties last month. Similarly, after the disciplining of divestment activists at Harvard this fall, no other campus divestment movement voiced any sympathy...