Word: quests
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...ventures have produced more noble failures than the quest to power civilization with renewable energy from geophysical forces -- the winds, the tides and, most of all, the sun's rays. "To date the history of solar has been the story of Tantalus: year after year the prize has remained, maddeningly, just beyond reach," noted a FORTUNE magazine story. It ended on a hopeful note: "The period of solar frustration is drawing to a close." Date of the story: September 1979. In fact, the period of solar frustration was just beginning...
Other psychiatric studies around the country are coming under increasing scrutiny, raising fresh examples in the ongoing debate over experimental ethics. How can scientists be held accountable for harm to an experimental subject? Must individual rights always supersede the quest for knowledge? "This is an issue that has been around since the Nazi experiments," says Susan Knapp, the APA's director of publications. "If the conditions for a research project were unethical but the science is good, what do you do with...
...quest for the title, Cohagan will have a bit of a fan club back home in Parma, Ohio. Despite the Lack of college hockey coverage and exposure, Cohagan still has developed a group of supporters...
...quest for the Crimson's fourth consecutive ECAC championship and second overall national title starts with a 7 p.m. contest against Brown at the Meehan Auditorium in Providence...
That seven year-old with the baseball glove has come quite a long way. For if there's any one person who can singlehandedly fulfill that Harvard championship quest, it's Tripp Tracy, and that's just the way he likes...