Word: beta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beta Kappa lota Chapter of Massachusetts has elected 24 Radcliffe seniors to its midst, Radcliffe officials announced last week...
While many of the new members said they were pleased by the honor, several said that a Phi Beta Kappa induction was nothing to get too excited about...
Following is a list of the 24 new inductees to the Phi Beta Kappa Iota Chapter of Massachusetts...
...busy talking inside baseball that it has forgotten the customers. They're thoroughly confused by all this alphabet soup," says James Morris, a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In many cases, he says, customers are postponing purchases until one format emerges dominant, the way VHS surpassed Beta as a videocassette standard...
...brains of victims characteristically contain plaques that include the beta amyloid, but its presence can only be confirmed after death. Whether it helps cause the brain degeneration or is a by-product is not clear. But if the beta amyloid is the cause, then the Boston research could represent a turning point. The study suggests that the suspect chemical may be produced in one or more tissues outside the brain, circulate in the bloodstream and enter various other tissues. But damage seems to occur only when the beta amyloid is deposited in certain regions of the brain important to memory...