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...With the rapid proliferation of HMO's, teaching hospitals will no longer be able to depend on Medicare to bear the extra costs...
Rowe took a roundabout path through a turbulent Harvard during his years as an undergraduate. The period from 1969 to 1973 saw some of the most rapid change in Harvard's history...
Vaccines should, in theory, work just as well for new varieties of disease as they do for old ones. In practice, they often don't. An HIV vaccine has proved difficult to develop because the virus is prone to rapid mutations. These don't affect its deadliness but do change its chemistry enough to keep the immune system from recognizing the pathogen...
...bang from about 800 lbs. of conventional explosives, packed around the plutonium. But the implosion has to apply perfectly uniform pressure from all sides, so all the explosives have to go off at exactly the same time, triggered by precisely placed high-energy capacitors -- devices capable of releasing enormous, rapid bursts of electricity. The right timing devices require a level of technology available only to highly trained engineers working in well-equipped labs. Much of the lab work can be bypassed by purchasing ready-made plutonium pits extracted from dismantled nuclear missiles. These spheres have already been machined and need...
...popularity of kidware has made it not only the hottest segment of the $6.8 billion software industry but also a driving force behind the rapid growth in hardware sales. There are more than 15 million U.S. homes with both personal computers and school-age children; that figure is expected to double by 1998. "More and more parents see computers as something essential for their children's education," says Jean Cho, a manager of learning programs for software giant Microsoft...