Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite the dispute over the march, the peace process this week went into high gear with former IRA fighters and Protestant paramilitaries trading quips and showing a remarkable degree of cooperation inside the new Northern Ireland assembly in spite of attempts by the Protestant opposition to destabalize it. In Northern Ireland, after all, politics have never been for the faint-hearted -- even if things do turn ugly in Portadown, the leaders committed to keeping the peace are not men easily spooked by the sight of blood...
This trend in the naming process, as it would seem to me, goes something like this: typical Alternative Band X decides it needs a name--and a good one at that. After surveying the names of similar groups that have been commercially successful, its members realize that a catchy and quirky name is vital to the group if it ever hopes to wins a spot on Casey's Top 40 or even a gig on "Late Night With Conan O'Brian." So, following the lead of groups like Green Day, Barenaked Ladies, Smashing Pumpkins and Foo Fighters, the band members...
...selection process, candidates are evaluated by a committee of scholars in that field, who send their recommendations on to a general committee. This committee then makes its final recommendations to Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, who makes the final decision...
...result is a detailed, computer-generated snapshot of the HIV infection process that is as starkly beautiful as it is informative. The picture shows, for example, that some of the virus' most stable--and therefore vulnerable--structures are either located at the bottom of crevices, where the relatively bulky antibodies of the immune system can't reach them, or obscured by great forests of sugar molecules. One particularly attractive target comes out of hiding only in that brief moment after gp120 latches onto the CD4 receptor and before it attaches to the chemokine receptor--much too briefly for the immune...
Homes might soon be equipped with their own generators, thanks to fuel-cell technology, which promises to be cheaper and less polluting than today's power plants. Fuel cells use an electrochemical process without combustion to convert fuel into electricity. Plug Power demonstrated the first home model in Latham, N.Y., last week. The units should be available to consumers within two years for $3,000 to $5,000, and could shave power bills...