Word: jetting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...actually heard a heartbeat when the Florida Supreme Court sent the counters back to work. Now it looked as if Gore's intricate legal case might be reducible to four words: "I got more votes." Party headquarters was suddenly flooded with calls from Democrats, entire congressional staffs, offering to jet down to Florida to help oversee the recount. "I was back in business," said campaign manager Donna Brazile. That night was the "first time I slept without a Zantac" since the election...
Brandeis University professors Jordan Pollack and Hod Lipson recently used "genetic" algorithms to design simple robots, which were then assembled by other robots. General Electric also uses genetic algorithms, in the design of jet engines, and its simulation of evolution produces designs superior to those created by unaided human designers. Microsoft has reportedly evolved some of the software it uses to balance system resources rather than have human programmers explicitly write these codes...
...scholarship at Tuskegee University, Johnson earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's in nuclear engineering. He did thermal analysis of plutonium fuel spheres at the Savannah River National Laboratory and developed auxiliary cooling systems at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At the famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, he worked as a systems engineer for the Galileo mission to Jupiter. He joined the Air Force, where he was assigned to the Strategic Air Command and studied nonnuclear-strategic-weapons technology and worked on the Stealth bomber program. He later went back to the Jet Propulsion...
...Your eyes don't waste time with saccadic jumps, since there's never more than one word on the screen at a time. The wheel steers you between chapters; the stick shift takes you to the next book. Before you know it, your brain has become some kind of jet-powered Maserati. Reading regular text, you're considered fleet of eye if you hit 400 words a minute; on this device, known as the Speeder Reader, test subjects have been known to manage 2,000 words a minute...
...fans of Eastern action epics, Yuen is revered as the deviser of artful torture for Asia's top actor-athletes: Jackie Chan (the 1978 Drunken Master), Sammo Hung (Magnificent Butcher), Jet Li (The Tai Chi Master) and Michelle Yeoh (Wing Chun, with its amazing battle over a plate of tofu). In period epics and modern cop dramas, his heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. His melodrama is never mellow: a little girl is bundled in dynamite (The Red-Wolf); a heroine battles a predator...