Word: vigilantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As they were charting the changing pressures, the Nobel citation states, "it was Osheroff's vigilant eye that noticed small extra jumps in the curve." Those jumps, it turned out, represented the change of helium-3 into a superfluid, a liquid with no viscosity that can climb up and over...
If the history of science has a recurring theme, it is surely the relationship between chance happenings and the vigilant minds of those prepared to take advantage of them. Since Louis Pasteur first remarked on the affinity of the two in 1854, many instances of coincidence or happenstance have led...
STOPPING THE CELL CYCLE When a cell divides, normally or otherwise, it does so not all at once but in a series of carefully orchestrated steps. Each step provides oncologists with an opportunity to intervene in the process. In order to complete a successful division, for example, a cell must...
For the next four years, though, all eyes will more than likely be focused on Benjamin Netanyahu in an intensive quest to discover what he will really do now that he has achieved his burning ambition to be Prime Minister. Some claim he is pragmatic enough to jettison hot campaign...
It has become an article of faith among policymakers and on Wall Street that if the economy grows at an annual rate above 2% or 2 1/2%, inflation will rise, perhaps uncontrollably. As illustrated by recent events, such conventional wisdom has become almost a self-fulfilling limitation. When growth rises...