Word: modeling
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Thomas McMahon, McKay Professor of Applied Engineering and author of McKay's Bees, and his research assistant Peter Greene specialize in biomechanics, a newly invented scientific method which unites biology and engineering. Constructing synthetic models of limbs, eyes and other body parts, the pair attempt to solve medical problems by discovering, simply, what went wrong in the mechanics. They have already made headlines for their peculiar specialty: in 1977, they experimented with artificial legs to discover the ideal running ground and came up with the celebrated new track for Harvard's Indoor Tennis and Track Building. The track has both...
Kopelev served as the model for the kindly Communist character Lev Rubin in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle. After Stalin's death, all charges were lifted against Kopelev. Last week, however, Kopelev packed himself a small suitcase in readiness for yet another possible trip to the Gulag...
Such considerations as "morality, democracy and justice" are not values to be taken lightly. Harberger does not seem to recognize that massive repression, unemployment, hunger, and torture are social costs incurred by his Draconian monetarist measures. The ideal is not maximum possible efficiency within Harberger's limited econometric model, but the optimum degree of economic efficiency with the maximum freedom from suffering, persecution, and exploitation for everyone in the population...
...dramatic illustration of the social consequences of the economic model is the widespread malnutrition in today's Chile. Per capita intake of calories and proteins has decreased seriously since the military came to power. The attitude of the military authorities towards this social msiery is as shocking as the statistics. Admitting that "221,000 children are living in extreme poverty, which implies undernourishment," the minister of health commented that "those children are not a source of power, but a dragging weight...
...spot, the Republican National Committee asked a New York City agency for a model who was "big and burly" and "personified Democratic politicians of the postwar era." The agency gave the assignment to Ed Steffe, 72, a character actor and self-described Wendell Willkie Republican from Manhattan. In the commercial, which was previewed in Washington last week, Steffe, wearing a white wig and identified as a Congressman, sits behind the wheel of a long, black Lincoln Continental with registration plates marked DEMOCRAT. As the car sputters to a stop, an announcer declares: "The Democrats are out of gas. We need...