Word: programing
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...Kirila sold his company to fitness giant Cybex and started Pyramid Operating Systems. That's when he and his engineering chief, Bob McCollum, devised a software program to control each step in the manufacturing process. A company offered them a lucrative contract to build storm drains, but Pyramid didn't have the $2 million needed to fashion or tool the proper steel mold to shape the pipe. That's when McCollum came up with a startlingly simple--and cheap--idea. Instead of a metal mold, why not fashion two pieces of composite in the shape of the product, inject...
...they will fertilize wild plants, and weeds will emerge that are hardier and even more difficult to control. No one knows how common the exchange of genes between domestic plants and their wild relatives really is, but Margaret Mellon, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' agriculture and biotechnology program, is certainly not alone in thinking that it's high time we find out. Says she: "People should be responding to these concerns with experiments, not assurances...
...year. In more than 85% of summer-school evaluations, students who attended summer classes outperformed those who did not, according to a study by University of Missouri psychology professor Harris Cooper. The benefits can be lasting: 85% of students who spent their sixth-grade summer in Chicago's program, with classes at 15 students maximum, will be promoted to high school this fall. "The intimidation factor is not there," says Blondean Davis, who runs Chicago's program. "It's the ideal teaching environment...
Kishline wasn't. Last March, two months after she left the program she founded saying that it wasn't working for her, she drove the wrong way on a Washington State highway and smashed her pickup truck into a two-door Dodge, killing a man and his 12-year-old daughter. State troopers found Kishline unconscious, with a half-empty bottle of vodka by her side. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.26, more than three times the legal limit...
Kishline's devastating meltdown has reignited debate, and outrage, over an already controversial treatment approach. Moderation Management, which has volunteer chapters in 14 states, allows a weekly quota of nine drinks for women and 14 for men. Designed for mild-to-moderate problem drinkers, the program consists of meetings similar to those of Alcoholics Anonymous, but it has fewer rules. Participants are usually encouraged to keep a journal documenting their drinking and to limit and pace their intake of alcohol. Understandably, and perhaps wisely, since she faces sentencing next month for vehicular homicide, Kishline is now a sharp critic...