Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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WELCOME to the real Harvard University. The one in which the brilliant professors--the ones who aren't on sabbatical--are shielded by an array of adoring graduate students who have thoughtfully assumed all academic duties. The one in which the library system is so vast that the only remaining copy of the book you need is locked in a basement vault three miles across campus. The University that hired world-famous architects to build Mather House, the Holyoke Center and Canaday Hall...
...soon revolutionize U.S. attempts to patrol the flow of people, drugs and guns across its 1,900-mile border with Mexico. The sensors employed by the Border Patrol tend to be tripped off by every passing cow and coyote. Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque is developing a sophisticated new array of sensors that can transmit photographs of a trespasser to a central monitoring station, indicate direction and speed of movement, and also measure the presence of metal, a signal that the target is armed...
...this means a new array of choices for dual-income couples. As they sort their way through the maze of opportunities, therapists advise a high degree of communication and flexibility. Decisions that may bring careers into collision should be negotiated carefully, with both spouses voicing their feelings and misgivings. When exploring a job decision, worst-case scenarios should be addressed. Once a decision is reached, it should be reviewed periodically to make sure both partners are satisfied...
...honesty and informal style of Sakharov's newly published Memoirs truly makes you feel like you are his intimate acquaintance. Like a sweeping Russian novel, the book contains such a vast array of material it cannot be characterized or summarized easily. It is a treatise on particle physics, an inside account of the Soviet development of the hydrogen bomb, a look at the Soviet government, education, and legal systems, a love story, a journey from political naivite to passionate struggle against authorities, and a gallery of personal profiles that show a novelist's instinct for description, all imbued a deep...
...Jamil Hamad avoided the politicians who regularly define the Palestinian cause. "Rhetoric in the Middle East has an elaborate life of its own," explains Morrow. "It tends to obscure the truth." Instead of gathering familiar slogans, the two constructed their group portrait from the personal tales of a wide array of ordinary Palestinians. Says Hamad: "We decided to let readers judge for themselves the fears and dreams that filled our notebooks...