Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Strala, Scot Laughton and Tom Deacon have created an impossibly pretty, thoroughly thought-out floor lamp. It has steel tubes finished in black epoxy; the conical shade is spun aluminum; the green spherical on-off dimmer switch is patinated brass. The result is a lamp that alludes serenely to light -- the moon and the sun -- without fuss or frill...
...scientists confirmed the existence of human sex chromosomes, two of the 46 chromosomes people normally carry. Ordinarily, women have two X chromosomes, whereas men have an X and a Y. In 1959 the sex determining factor was traced to the Y chromosome. But it was still unclear whether the "switch" consisted of one gene or many...
...uncaged onstage Williams contains multitudes -- a Sybil's worth of funny, fractured personalities. The man who was Mork, on TV's sitcom smash of the late '70s, can switch in nanoo-seconds from an infant's helium singsong to Elmer Fudd as Bwooce Spwingsteen. This glossolaliac gift can give the listener a high and a headache; it is that quick, sharp and scary. Scares Williams too. "When it works," says the Chicago-born comic, 36, "it's like . . . freedom! Suddenly these things are coming out of you. You're in control, but you're not. The characters are coming through...
...problem with HDTV is that its signal cannot be squeezed into the narrow space allocated each channel in the TV broadcast spectrum. For the U.S. to ; switch to the new system, every television station would have to replace its equipment, and the country's 140 million TV sets would have to be scrapped, an unlikely prospect at present...
...Many fast food chains have switched, or arecontemplating a switch to paper," said Malone. Andat the local level, he said, "Tufts, hasconsidered foam but has stayed with paper. MIT hascut back on foam...