Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jenrette Trader John Sesko goes straight from his company's trading floor to an automated bank machine elsewhere in Manhattan. Sesko punches its buttons, withdraws $100 and puts the money in his pocket. The cash, he says, "gives me a sense of security." Then he climbs onto a commuter train and sleeps all the way home to suburban Connecticut...
...goal of the program is to train Afghan rebels in the use of media technology because the Soviets have prohibited foreign journalists from entering the country...
...University of Houston and colleagues reached 98 K, or -283 degrees F, an achievement some physicists think should have earned Chu a share of the prize. That level of cooling can be achieved with more readily available liquid nitrogen. Suddenly, a wide range of applications seems economically feasible: trains that ride on a cushion of magnetism; smaller, faster supercomputers; more powerful medical imaging machines; and 100%-efficient power lines. The superfast train, notes Bednorz, "is a real dream of mine...
Tonegawa proved that cells accomplish the Herculean task of making antibodies to order by reshuffling parts of the genes that govern the production of antibodies, the cellular building blocks of the immune system. He likens the process to rearranging the boxcars on a freight train. "The dogma was that the order of the genes in any one person is immutable," he says. "The freight train never shifts its cars around." In spite of prevailing theory, Tonegawa found that the "cars" did indeed rearrange themselves in a multitude of different configurations to make the antibodies that fight off diseases. His work...
...career? For reasons which are not easy to define, it is good to believe that a classroom must be kept uncontaminated by careerism. And thus it is nice to hear Dean Burton waxing metaphysical on the sanctity of learning, even as he heads a school whose purpose is to train businessmen...