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- 2321: Arthur Kornberg
- A. Personal Information Arthur Kornberg (1918-), American biochemist and physician, claims he has never met "a dull enzyme." He has devoted his life to pursuing and purifying these critical protein molecules. His love of science did not spring from a family history rooted in science. He was born on March 3rd, 1918, the son of a sewing machine operator in the sweatshops of the Lower East Side of New York City. His ... in the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine, and he holds memberships in several scientific associations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, and the American Philosophical Society. He has also authored over 300 scientific publications from 1956 to 1994 relating to DNA replication, DNA polymerases, and other aspects of nucleic acid enzymology. Arthur Kornberg’ ...
- 2322: Bill Clinton
- In recent history, one would be hard pressed to find one politician surrounded in more controversy than Bill Clinton. His scandals have included drugs, adultery, treason, and fraud. The latest opprobrium that has plagued his presidency resulted in him becoming only the second president in the history of the United States to be impeached. After a long and drawn out sexual harassment trial, Paula Jones’ lawyers deposed former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. What would follow in ... have predicted. It all began with Clinton’s now infamous words; "I have never had sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky." Several videotapes, sapeanas, and cigar jokes later, the American public found out that he did, indeed, had sex with that woman. Many were outraged, many thought it was his personal business, and many just didn’t care. The ...
- 2323: The Computer Revolution
- The Computer Revolution If I were to make a history book of the years from 1981 to 1996, I would put computers on the cover. Computers, you may ask?, Yes computers, because if there were suddenly no computers on the ... using words that made sense in their context. This system was called BASIC. BASIC was a major development in the computer industry, because it made computers accessible to the average American. This helped greatly in proving that computers were no longer just toys and they had a very useful purpose. Most people still felt the cost was too great for a ... be used for its full potential. Instead of linking one computer to another, now millions of computers could be linked with massive main frames from on-line services such as; American On-Line or Prodigy. People finally had full affordable access to the World-Wide-Web and could communicate with people across the street or across the world. The internet ...
- 2324: Computer Viruses: Past, Present And Future
- ... Just as proper diet, exercise and preventative health care can add years to your life, prudent and cost-effective anti-virus strategies can minimize your exposure to computer viruses. · A history of computer viruses · Who writes viruses - and how they can reach you · The early warning symptoms of virus infection · The real numbers behind the growth of viruses and their costs ... If that pattern of incubation holds, the explosion of new viruses over the past few years could result in another explosion in total infections over the next few years. The History Of Viruses: How It All Began Today, the existence of viruses and the need to protect against them are inevitable realities. But it wasn't always so. As recently as ... PC user has an average 35 diskettes, about 35,000 diskettes will have to be scanned, too. Recovery Time For A Virus Disaster (25 PCs) On average, it took North American respondents to the 1991 Dataquest study four days to recover from a virus episode - and some MIS managers needed fully 30 days to recover. Even more ominously, their efforts ...
- 2325: America and the Computer Industry
- ... electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has it changed the American society. >From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of people's lives for the better. The very earliest existence ... the way people work and play. It has made everyone's life easier by doing difficult work for people. The computer truly is one of the most incredible inventions in history. Works Cited Chposky, James. Blue Magic. New York: Facts on File Publishing. 1988. Cringley, Robert X. Accidental Empires. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing, 1992. Dolotta, T.A. Data Processing: 1940 ... York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishing, 1984. Rose, Frank. West of Eden. New York: Viking Publishing, 1989. Shallis, Michael. The Silicon Idol. New York: Shocken Books, 1984. Soma, John T. The History of the Computer. Toronto: Lexington Books, 1976. Zachary, William. "The Future of Computing", Byte. Boston: Byte Publishing, August 1994.
- 2326: Descartes
- Rene Descartes was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of the philosophy. Born in 1596, he lived to become a great mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. In fact, he became one of the central intellectual figures of the sixteen hundreds ... One, that he actually was an immaterial thing, and two, that there is in fact an external corporeal world Although Descartes is still a well respected philosopher, it seems that history has judged much of his reasoning as faulty. Kant calls him a "problematic idealist" for whom "there is only one empirical assertion that is indubitably certain, namely that ‘I am ... only true maxim that Descartes discovered, it is indeed a remarkable achievement. Schopenhauer credits Descartes for discovering the "only correct starting point … in all philosophy." Charles Sanders Peirce, a great American philosopher, said "With Descartes, philosophy put away childish things and became a conceited young man."
- 2327: Questions of Ethics In Computer Systems and Their Future
- ... media, the Internet is truly a public access network, then the control to which they would like to extend to it would be the most regulated public access system in history. What I believe the attempt here is to regulate through censorship. Since it is almost impossible to censor the phone networks without actually eaves dropping on your phone, they have ... the S&L failures) derived from when government agencies answer the call with regulations to help out an industry that pushed for regulation to prop up a dying industry. The American people and the government should stand up and take notice of what the government tried to do in regulating banking in the 1980's, could very well be the debacle ... When does monitoring for wrong doing and the infringement of your Constitutional rights start to crossover. The danger here is obvious, for every regulation the government perceives as needed the American citizen gives up a little more of there right to privacy and free speech. For the trader types this comes in the form of what he says or writes ...
- 2328: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... 1944. IfEisenhower had made a wrong choice, Hitler would have continued to rainV-1 & V-2 rockets on London (Benson 7). Eisenhower had nowsuccessfully completed the most important invasion in history wiping out allmost 100% of German units. Luckily Allied forces only suffered 76% casualties (Barry 30). Dwight Eisenhower was one of the most popular and successfulpresidents in our country's history. Eisenhower was elected to the office ofpresident twice. His first term with vice president Richard Nixion began in1952 (Hargrove 65). Then again in 1956 Dwight Eisenhower was reelectedto president winning ... Dwight Eisenhower left the office of President and was succeededby newly-elected President John F. Kennedy (Hargrove 87). In closing I believe that Dwight David Eisenhower is one of ourgreatest American heroes. Even after his presidency Eisenhower still wasone of the most popular people and admired people through the mid to late1960's. He lived on a farm in Gettesyberg ...
- 2329: Helen Keller
- ... raised money so that her student could attend the Cambridge School for Young Ladies. In 1896, Helen began her studies at Cambridge which included French, Greek, literature, mathematics, geography, and history. She then went on to attend Radcliffe College in 1980. In 1904, she graduated cum laude and received her AB Degree (Notable 390). Not only did Helen help the organizations ... of Colored People. Her involvement with this particular group seemed to be the most controversial and it infuriated her family and friends back in her home state of Alabama. The American Foundation for the Blind was founded in 1924 and asked Helen to help raise funds for the foundation. Helen agreed to campaign for the American Foundation for the Blind. She raised two million dollars and spread public awareness (Briggs 307). In 1929, the second volume of her autobiography, Midstream: My Later Life, was published. ...
- 2330: Jim Thorpe
- James Francis Thorpe accomplished without argument what no other athlete in history has. The Sac and Fox Indian won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympic games in Sweden and played both professional football and professional baseball. His feats on the football field put him on the 1911 and 1912 All-American football teams. In 1920 he became the first president of the American Professional Football Association (later to become the NFL). In 1951, he was one of the first men to be admitted to the National Football Foundation’s Hall of Fame. ...
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