Whereas the first record of the year 1957 reported on the search for a beneficial utilization of nuclear waste, the year's last record was about a different kind of technological pursuit: "the feasibility of injecting radioactive wastes into the ground without contaminating drinking water or creating other health hazards".
(a) Iran's nuclear program is not a peaceful technological pursuit, as attested by both the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA and National Intelligence Estimatee (NIE), but a pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Besides the music festival, SXSW — which this year spanned 10 days — now includes a film festival and an interactive festival, which features gaming, social networking and other technological pursuits.
Humankind has begun to reap one of the most valued harvests of its scientific and technological pursuits: a significant increase in human longevity.
The entertainment of scenarios such as a radioactive Maginot line, as well as the numerous technological pursuits of potential uses for nuclear waste, seems to have been manifestations of an overall effort to deny nuclear waste an existence as waste.
Given the concerns that we have about losing the edge we once enjoyed in science and math versus the rest of the industrialized world, FIRST is making it possible for America to retake the lead in technological pursuits and that benefits all of us.
Instead of shunning the technological in pursuit of the mythical authentic experience, Pang wants to use technology to clean up the mess it created.
The power of the latter is somewhat underestimated, but in fact it may represent what really makes robotics worthy of constituting a scientific and not only a technological or engineering pursuit.
The failures that led to this disaster are not only endemic of BP, Transocean, Halliburton, and their other Macondo partners, but they permeate the entire offshore oil industry, which has pushed beyond its own technological capacity in pursuit of profit.
But the 18percentt initiative, as it has come to be known, is particularly contentious because it would provide exceptions for highly educated foreigners involved in technological and scientific pursuits, leaving asylum seekers and poorer immigrants at the mercy of the new quota.
The ancient Egyptians were thus able to produce an abundance of food, allowing the population to devote more time and resources to cultural, technological, and artistic pursuits.
