Word: techs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ever wish you'd finished college? -Rafi Katz, Silver Spring, MD.I'm just not that type of person. As soon as I got out of the womb I was ready to do this. Then there's other times-I'm not really high-tech computer-savvy, and there's some things that I do have weaknesses with. I don't know if school would have made that better for me. I'm cool with the way I've turned...
...Phaeno - apart from the Zaha Hadid?designed building itself, which is a triumph of experimental construction techniques and design aesthetics - is to be found in the 18 pieces brought by Arthur Ganson from his workshop at MIT in Boston. Ganson creates machines that are exquisitely engineered from low-tech materials to "express a feeling or a thought or a question." A wishbone hauling its own dream machine across the floor may not have a clear meaning, but that takes second place, he says, to "communicating the intensity and patience I put into getting the thing to walk." www.phaeno.de/mechanik.html
...President also led a $1.2 billion initiative to fight malaria, focusing on low-tech solutions such as bed nets, and, along with other leading industrialized nations, has granted $34 billion in debt relief for African nations in the past 18 months. While warning that proposed changes to PEPFAR's priorities, including dropping a requirement that 55% of funding be spent on medical care, could "cut the heart out of this life-saving AIDS care and treatment program," the AIDS Healthcare Foundation acknowledged PEPFAR was "widely expected to be among the President's most lasting and favorable legacies...
...blue) rarely showed a wrinkle. Always a good speechmaker, she sharpened her delivery during the campaign by using an electronic prompting device, something relatively new to British politics and dubbed the "sincerity box" by the press. Unlike Foot, she rarely campaigned on the streets, but swirled efficiently through high-tech plants, bakeries, farms and wool mills. At each stop, she took an obsessive interest in what was shown her, asking in detail how thermostats were made at a Tarka Controls factory in Inverness, discussing the fine points of beer with workers at Robinson's Unicorn Brewery in Stockport...
...there security lessons to be learned? The suddenness of the attack meant there was little time for campus authorities to interdict Kazmierczak. So the lessons may be fuzzy at most. One piece of college folklore, however, may no longer apply. After last spring's Virginia Tech shootings, students in many schools figured it'd be safer to sit in the back of the class because of the belief that most of those killed in that rampage had been at the front of their classes. No more...