Word: scans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time spent looking for and finding your advisor to sign your study card is exponentially larger than the time it takes for him or her to briefly scan your concentration classes and initial it. And then, senior spring, your blockmate casually points out that you've neglected Lit and Arts...
...your classes?"..."How are your friends?" Normal questions, the some old routine. Then, "There's something I need to tell you." Her hands stretched out across the table as I fiddled with soggy Sweet and Low wrappers. "Pop's score went up. They had to do a bone scan to see if the cancer had spread...
Dotalk through possible topics with professors, TF's, other students and friends. Even consider keeping a thesis journal as you go. Don't scan aimlessly through old magazines and random books looking for inspiration to strike. I tried it, and it was an entertaining waste of time. You're much more likely to run across a topic while researching a paper for a class in your area of interest. Which brings up an important method for choosing a topic...
...horseback and, without benefit of a university degree (indeed, at age 14), conceived the idea of electronic television--the moment of inspiration coming, according to legend, while he was tilling a potato field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images the same way, line by line, just as you read a book. To cap it off, he spent much of his adult life in a struggle with one of America's largest and most powerful corporations. Our kind...
...British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield invents the computerized tomography scanner (CAT scan), which builds a 3-D image of the brain...