Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...file on the "ubiquitous X" collection. Legend has it that the collection was started in the 1950s after a sociology professor found that the books on eroticism he needed for his research had been stolen or damaged. So the library set up the closed-stacks collection to make sure that scholars would have access to the research material...
...would like to come back, but just to be realistic, I'm not sure they would want me," MacFarland said in the interview. "I reluctantly understand their position. This event wouldn't effect my ability to judge scholarship, but it might undermine the committee's mandate...
Later this year Aprex, a company based in Fremont, Calif., will begin marketing a high-tech medicine bottle designed to help doctors make sure that patients obey orders. Called MEMS (for medication event monitoring system), the container comes with a tiny computer chip embedded in its cap. When the patient takes off the cap to remove a pill, the chip records the day and time. At the patient's next checkup, the doctor can ask for the bottle back. Then the physician inserts the cap into a special electronic machine that analyzes the data contained in the chip and lets...
...derives from the economic relations among its citizens (although Adam Smith had figured out the same thing in the previous century). The leaders of the Russian and Chinese revolutions imposed on the people a totalitarian form of the social compact: You give up your freedom, and we'll make sure you live decently. Bread was one of the most common words on the banners that the workers carried through the streets of Petrograd in 1917, and the promise of food was an important theme in the propaganda of the Communists as they swept to victory in China...
Baker, who believed he was doing just fine at the Sun, was less sure. The paper nurtured and rewarded his talents; its editor was like a father. James Reston, then the Times's Washington bureau chief, would eventually assume a similar role as Baker's boss. But before the relationship could be established, home-office politics required that Baker pay dues in New York City. Underemployed in the Times's vast, overstaffed city room, the "jumper," as he describes himself, guiltily plowed through Dostoyevsky and corresponded with his wife Mimi. "The Times felt like an insurance office," he observes. "Writing...