Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, behind the military shield, Salvadoran government technicians and U.S. Government officials are moving into the territory reclaimed in Operation Goodwill to repair the roads, power lines, bridges and schools destroyed in the F.M.L.N.'s economic sabotage campaign. Says a U.S. military expert: "You can't bring the guerrilla to bay with military means alone...
Before attempting to repair the brain damage, Stein's team waited a week to allow for the natural accumulation of healing proteins called nerve growth factors. Then they implanted a pinhead-size lump of tissue that had been taken from the frontal cortex of normal rat embryos. The researchers used fetal cells because they are rich in growth factors and adapt easily to a new environment. Result of the operation: the brain-damaged rats were able to learn the maze in just 8½ days. While this is still slower than normal, says Stein, "the transplant was clearly producing...
After bicycling 3100 miles on a cross country trip without experiencing much more than some flat tires and a scratch or two, a group of Harvard students raising money to fight world hunger were robbed of their cash, cameras, and repair equipment early Saturday while they slept in a Detroit church...
...Having already begun the transformation from an industrial economy to one based on gathering and disseminating information, the Japanese now hope to overcome age-old barriers of language and culture with intelligent machines: automatic translation devices coupled with systems that can dispense medical advice, prepare tax returns, design buildings, repair complex electronic equipment. In their vision of the future, fifth-generation computers will be delivery vehicles for the ultimate export products: the know-how and native intelligence of the Japanese people. -By Philip Elmer-DeWltt. Reported by Thomas Levenson/Tokyo
American military advisers, TIME has learned, traveled secretly to Iran in the summer of 1979. They test-fired two Hawk antiaircraft missiles for the Iranian air force and offered to repair Iran's Hawk defensive system. The Carter Administration also authorized some major U.S. arms manufacturers to continue sales of military equipment to Iran covertly. This, in turn, encouraged private arms dealers to continue supplying Iran. All official cooperation with Iran ended when the embassy in Tehran was seized. Carter impounded $300 million worth of spare parts that the Shah had paid for, and ordered a complete boycott...