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The new Geographic Information System is a computer software package which translates tabular information--facts and figures--into visual terms. The program is expected to be a powerful tool in planning the future of the campus.
Although doctors have found the PSA test helpful in spotting small prostate cancers, there is no guarantee that early detection is beneficial. The test may be turning up the less troublesome tumors and not ferreting out the killer cancers. Researchers are working on ways to improve the blood test. And...
The key to the Clinton-Gore appeal is that corporate buzz word, synergy: when the images of the two are fused in the public mind, the sum appears greater than the parts. "There's a lot of discussion in our focus groups where people are excited about the two of...
Q. I have been fascinated by a phrase that you have used in your writings and that translates into English as good taste. I wonder what you mean by that?
In this medium Canova became a virtuoso almost from the start of his career, with a formidable talent for organizing the softness of flesh, the bulges and hollows of the body, the movement of windblown cloth into the live whiteness of the granular, crystalline, semitranslucent stone. Canova's desire to...