All the books were research for Mao.
A spokeswoman for the Army Medical Command said the files were research study records.
Former patients at Butner say that they did not realize they were research subjects.
"The substantial majority were research or medical personnel," he said, "which is what you'd expect".
The Cambridge Ring projects were research forerunners of today's commercial networks like automated teller machine networks.
Training programs were introduced for the worst-affected staff, as were research tools to help managers monitor the incidence of sick leave and its impact.
There are also biographies and books about music and recording technology, some of which were research for my own book, How Music Works.
Of necessity there were research trips to Shoreditch and Hoxton, then far from the gentrified locales they are now but already testing the limits of stupidity.
These were research databases, scientists said, not like the forensic DNA banks being gathered by the F.B.I. and police departments.
Many of them were research doctors, like my father was, and after eating they would sit on the porch or the yard or the patio and smoke cigars or pipes and talk about papers they were writing or reading.
Among Ircam's aims, as defined by Boulez, were research into acoustics, into instrumental design ("instruments have scarcely changed over the past two or three centuries"), and into the problems of composition itself.
