Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business is not without controversy, however, most of it centered on tricky questions of privacy. Short tandem repeat technology is so sensitive that it can identify DNA from little more than the saliva residue on a soda can. "A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual," says Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "No one wants someone snooping into...
...kills his cheating lover and then himself. Other, less talented rappers might have turned the song into something venomous and exploitative. Nas' rendering of this bloody story reminds one of Bruce Springsteen's spare, misanthropic songs on Nebraska, or even of Raymond Carver's terse short stories. The last line in Undying Love is "now under God, we elope." And then there is a single gunshot. Nas takes no joy in his raps of woe; he's a reporter coolly relaying the madness of his world and the turmoil in his heart...
...years, the rap on American managers has been that they're short-term thinkers, cowed by Wall Street--the nerve!--to make the quarterly number or see their stock price sacrificed to the earnings gods. What this country really needed, said the pundits and business professors, was a group of CEOs who had the guts to go long. Now, at (long) last, a new generation of managers, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Tim Koogle of Yahoo, Steve Case of America Online and Tom Jermoluk from @Home, has emerged to do exactly that, through aggressive acquisition strategies, massive infrastructure spending...
...range. The fastest are Pentium IIIs that run at 500 MHz, perfect for 3-D games like the upcoming Quake III. Celerons are discount chips found in many sub-$1,000 PCs. They are cheaper and slower because they have less short-term cache memory. Xeons are Intel's fastest chips (with up to four times the cache of Pentiums) and are used only for corporate servers...
Reproductive medicine has come a long way in a very short time. It is now a $1 billion-a-year industry that accounts for some 23,000 live births a year in the U.S. But its well-publicized mishaps have moral overtones. Are we interfering with the natural order of things, allowing doctors to play...