Word: techs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book Agents of Influence by Pat Choate was roundly denounced by reviewers as an overwrought piece of Japan bashing and got him fired by TRW Inc., a high-tech company he had been serving as a kind of one-man think tank. But Ross Perot lauded the book on a Larry King Live TV show that Choate happened to be watching. Phone calls led to meetings that led to a jointly written 1993 Perot-Choate book excoriating the North American Free Trade Agreement; even some other treaty opponents found it overstated. Perot nonetheless has paid his coauthor--well...
Meet Harold Rosen, a slight, gentle-mannered 70-year-old Cal Tech Ph.D. who predates the space age by a dog's age. Yet every time you watch a live-television feed from distant parts of the earth, chances are the signal has bounced off one of the satellites he helped design for Hughes Aircraft in his 37-year career. "He is uncommonly brilliant," says his biggest fan, younger brother Ben, 63. "He's a national treasure...
...project's self-volunteered guinea pigs don high-tech gear that monitors their circulatory, respiratory and nervous systems. With their face masks and unique watches that measure and record heart and pulse rates, they look like astronauts in training--an apt resemblance as it turns out. "If you go up in space for three weeks, stay in bed for three weeks or age 30 years," says Nadel, "the wasting that goes on in the muscles, bones and water volume is remarkably similar." The seniors in the program are so pleased by the immediate benefits of the assorted aerobic and muscle...
...also place great importance on obtaining a meticulously detailed medical history that includes dreams and childhood experiences, enabling them to customize therapy. Chiropractic and massage, two of the three alternative therapies most used by Americans (along with relaxation techniques), provide another component many patients feel is lacking in high-tech medicine: touching, as both a curative and an extension of compassion...
...wealthiest or best-insured patients. Any long-term solution for AIDS will also have to take into account the estimated 20 million people living outside industrialized countries who are infected with HIV. Most of them cannot afford basic health care let alone high-tech treatments, and most are infected with a different subtype of HIV than those commonly studied in the U.S. and Europe. Nor can the scourge be conquered without a vaccine, even though scientists are still unable to answer a fundamental question: What must such a vaccine accomplish in the body in order to protect...