Word: watts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WATT RADIO put next to Furby can change his personality, even his name...
...century has also turned science into the principal agent of technology. When James Watt built the first steam engines 200 years ago, he had intuition but not the laws of thermodynamics to guide him. We do not sufficiently applaud our century's discovery that science can be useful--or the degree to which science has come to depend on technology for its new instruments: powerful telescopes, atom smashers, computers...
...Watt's father, after whom the chair isnamed, died earlier this month
With 2:20 remaining, he poked the puck away from Mike Watt on a breakaway...
...distant a target, he called on Donald Campbell, the chief scientist at the world's largest radiotelescope, the 1,000-ft. dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Campbell agreed to try, although he estimated that the power of the returned signal would be about a billionth of a watt...