Word: silicon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hopes will be the "format" -- what VCRs and video cassettes were to home video in the 1980s -- that will run home systems in years to come. Ten years ago, when Hawkins vowed to build an entertainment- software empire with unorthodox technology, he had few believers. Today, after his Silicon Valley company, Electronic Arts, stole a huge chunk of market share from giant Nintendo with popular games like PGA Golf Tour, Chuck Yeager Air Combat and John Madden Football, he is taken seriously indeed...
...ARGUMENTS FOR building the multibillion-dollar space station Freedom is that it would provide a zero-gravity laboratory to grow bigger and purer protein and silicon crystals. But increasingly there is a question as to whether the crystal-growing techniques, at least for proteins, are all that reliable. Reviewing a decade's worth of such space efforts, scientists writing in Nature found that less than a quarter of the experiments actually worked, and then with only mixed success. Their recommendation: rent time aboard the already orbiting Russian space station...
...become harder] to fathom how~~ truth and justice could have anything like the same meaning the world over--say to a New Guinea headhunter and a computer programmer in Silicon Valley or to militant enemy groups in the Middle East," Bok said...
...importance of this race is enormous. Described as the rice of the electronic age and the crude oil of the 21st century, computer chips are the fundamental building blocks of modern electronics. The fingernail-size chips of silicon power everything from video games and fax machines to washing machines and guided missiles. Japan and the U.S. are locked in a global struggle to control future generations of powerful chips that will form the basis of such gee-whiz products as pocket supercomputers, 3-D interactive televisions and wristwatch telephones. If the computer-chip revival here can be sustained, says Fred...
...THAT the company would put to rest some charges, long voiced by occupational-safety groups, that work in a semiconductor plant is dangerous. But preliminary results of a study by Johns Hopkins researchers, commissioned by the computer giant, show that women exposed to two chemicals employed in making silicon chips have a much higher risk of suffering miscarriages. Among 30 women who handled chemicals at IBM plants in New York and Vermont from 1980 to 1989, the miscarriage rate was 33%, more than double that of women who had no contact with the chemicals diethylene glycol dimethyl ether and ethylene...