The aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was preparing to launch attacks into North Vietnam when one of its jets accidentally fired a rocket into an aircraft occupied by pilot John McCain. A huge fire ensued, and McCain barely escaped before a 1,000-pound bomb on his plane exploded, causing a chain reaction with other bombs on surrounding planes. The crew struggled for days to extinguish the fires, but, in the end, the tragedy took the lives of 134 men. For thirty-five years, the terrible loss of life has been blamed on the sailors themselves, but this meticulously documented history shows that they were truly the victims and heroes.

This organizational history relates the role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the development of modern computing. Drawing upon new and existing oral histories, extensive use of NSF documents, and the experience of two of the authors as senior managers, this book describes how NSF's programmatic activities originated and evolved to become the primary source of funding for fundamental research in computing and information technologies. The book traces how NSF's support has provided facilities and education for computing usage by all scientific disciplines, aided in institution and professional community building, supported fundamental research in computer science and allied disciplines, and led the efforts to broaden participation in computing by all segments of society. Today, the research and infrastructure facilitated by NSF computing programs are significant economic drivers of American society and industry. For example, NSF supported work that led to the first widely-used web browser, Netscape; sponsored the creation of algorithms at the core of the Google search engine; facilitated the growth of the public Internet; and funded research on the scientific basis for countless other applications and technologies. NSF has advanced the development of human capital and ideas for future advances in computing and its applications. This account is the first comprehensive coverage of NSF's role in the extraordinary growth and expansion of modern computing and its use. It will appeal to historians of computing, policy makers and leaders in government and academia, and individuals interested in the history and development of computing and the NSF.

A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From

? Che Guevara ? Bob Marley ? Mao Tse Tung ? George Jackson ? Noam Chomsky ? Patrice Lumumba ? Leonard Peltier ? Richard Pryor ? Bruce Lee ? H. Rap Brown ? Will Rogers ? Kwame Ture ? Plato ? Chief Seattle ? Maurice Bishop ? Anne Wilson Schaef ? Martin Luther King, Jr. ? Mahatma Gandhi ? Helen Keller ? Stevie Wonder ? Buddha ? Fidel Castro ? Ptah-Hotep ? Denzel Washington ? Socrates ? Karl Marx ? Arundhati Roy ? Paul Robeson ? Zhuge Liang ? Malcolm X ? Confucius ? Sekou Toure? ? Marvin Gaye ? Mother Jones ? Hugo Chavez ? Kwame Nkrumah ? Ho Chi Minh ? Amilcar Cabral ? Eugene V. Debs ? Jose? Marti ? James Loewen ? Marcus Garvey ? Augusto Sandino ? Aesop's Fables ? Harriet Tubman ? Chief Joseph ? Frantz Fanon ? Mark Twain ? Simon Bolivar ? Thomas Sankara ? Lao Tzu ? Miriam Makeba ? Howard Zinn ? Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. ? Subcomandante Marcos ? Mumia Abu-Jamal ? Kim Il Sung ? Sitting Bull ? W.E.B. Du Bois ? Red Cloud ? Paramahansa Yogananda ? David Walker ? Assata Shakur ? Albert Camus ? Steve Biko ? KRS-One ? George Santayana ? Carter G. Woodson ? Black Hawk ? Muhammad Ali ? John Lennon ? Chuck D ? John H. Clarke ? I Ching ? Jean-Jacques Rousseau ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ? Victor Hugo ? Salvador Allende ? Dick Gregory ? Emiliano Zapata ? Oprah Winfrey ? Upton Sinclair ? Bill Cosby ? Cesar Chavez ? John Brown ? Various International Proverbs ? Jack London ? Henry David Thoreau ? Frederick Douglass ? Emma Goldman ? Michael Jordan ? George Orwell ? Rage Against The Machine ? Albert Einstein ? Kareem Abdul-Jabar ? Voltaire ? Thomas Carlyle ? Lauryn Hill ? Sojourner Truth ? Depak Chopra ? The Bible ? Prophet Muhammad ? Rumi ? V.I. Lenin ? Meister Eckhart ? Fred Hampton ? Michael Moore ? The Tao ? George Carlin ? Ralph Nader ? Rosa Parks ? Margaret Storm Jameson ? Louis Farrakhan ? Nina Simone ? Yuri Kochiyama ? Woody Guthrie ? Bertrand Russell ? Rosa Luxemburg ? Willie Nelson ? Joan Baez ? Bhagavad-Gita ? Gen. Smedley Butler ? Fyodor Dostoyevsky ? Duke Ellington ? Ralph Waldo Emerson ? Jawanza Kunjufu ? Erich Fromm ? Jimi Hendrix ? Big Elk ? Fannie Lou Hamer ? Immanuel Kant ? Ziggy Marley ? Poor Richard's Almanac ? Public Enemy ? Bill Russell ? Kenneth Stampp ? Spock ? Peter Tosh ? Nat Turner ? Desmond Tutu ? Sun Tzu ? Booker T. Washington ? Saul Alinsky ? The Zulu Declaration ? Brother ?

A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs On ? God ? Faith ? Endurance ? Agitate ?Organize ? Unity ? Commun-all-ism ? Comrades ? Enemies ? No (Know) Sellouts ? United Snakes of America ? Poli-tricks ? The Rich & Greedy ? Warmongers ? The Slick, Selfish & Wicked ? The Humble, Righteous & Just ? Resistance ? Independence ? Criticism/Self-Criticism ? Time ? Tell-Lie-Vision ? Poverty/Class Struggle ? Poli-tricks ? The (In) Just-Us System ? Women ? Children ? Family ? Pride ? Death ? Culture ? History ? Slavery ? The African Holocaust ? The Question of Race ? Religion ? Money ? Work ? Education ? Knowledge & Wisdom ? Political Power ? Socialism ? Revolution ? Free the Land ? Afreeka ? God ?

The current understanding of cholesterol transport has moved from a largely descriptive science into the molecular stage. Intracellular Cholesterol Trafficking reports on the current state of research and features sections on: The Regulation of ACAT and Intracellular Cholesterol Level Niemann-Pick Type C Disease Cholesterol Transport in Specialized Cells Sterol Carrier Protein-2 and Cholesterol Transport Proteins Caveolae and Caveolin Summary and Future Perspectives . Intracellular Cholesterol Trafficking is sure to appeal to cell biologists, biochemists, endocrinologists, hepatologists, and atherosclerosis researchers.

The lipid-rich and otherwise challenging nature of many key tissues complicates many aspects of current research, and applications of the unique nature of lipoproteins and their biological effects has engendered unique and vital methodologies. In Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Disease: Methods and Protocols, experts in the field present a compendium of advanced and classical molecular biology methods targeted towards lipoprotein, atherosclerosis, and vascular biology research, bringing together in a single volume an updated set of protocols and strategies for methods now driving the most recent advances, along with classical methods that are still widely used. Among the many topics covered in this cutting-edge work, the book delves into crucial techniques such as quantitative real-time PCR, microarrays, RT-PCR laser capture microdissection, and tissue-specific gene overexpression, knockout, and knockdown methodologies, including AAV as a liver-directed gene delivery vehicle. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology (TM) series format, chapters include introductions to their respective subjects, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and valuable notes which highlight tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Comprehensive and easy to use, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Disease: Methods and Protocols serves both novices and experts alike as a complete guide for any researcher with an interest in lipoproteins and their significant biological effects.

In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord's notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now "spectacle" can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin's plea to "explode the continuum of history" and bring our attention to now-time.

A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From ? Che Guevara ? Bob Marley ? Mao Tse Tung ? George Jackson ? Noam Chomsky ? Patrice Lumumba ? Leonard Peltier ? Richard Pryor ? Bruce Lee ? H. Rap Brown ? Will Rogers ? Kwame Ture ? Plato ? Chief Seattle ? Maurice Bishop ? Anne Wilson Schaef ? Martin Luther King, Jr. ? Mahatma Gandhi ? Helen Keller ? Stevie Wonder ? Buddha ? Fidel Castro ? Ptah-Hotep ? Denzel Washington ? Socrates ? Karl Marx ? Arundhati Roy ? Paul Robeson ? Zhuge Liang ? Malcolm X ? Confucius ? Sekou Toure? ? Marvin Gaye ? Mother Jones ? Hugo Chavez ? Kwame Nkrumah ? Ho Chi Minh ? Amilcar Cabral ? Eugene V. Debs ? Jose? Marti ? James Loewen ? Marcus Garvey ? Augusto Sandino ? Aesop's Fables ? Harriet Tubman ? Chief Joseph ? Frantz Fanon ? Mark Twain ? Simon Bolivar ? Thomas Sankara ? Lao Tzu ? Miriam Makeba ? Howard Zinn ? Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. ? Subcomandante Marcos ? Mumia Abu-Jamal ? Kim Il Sung ? Sitting Bull ? W.E.B. Du Bois ? Red Cloud ? Paramahansa Yogananda ? David Walker ? Assata Shakur ? Albert Camus ? Steve Biko ? KRS-One ? George Santayana ? Carter G. Woodson ? Black Hawk ? Muhammad Ali ? John Lennon ? Chuck D ? John H. Clarke ? I Ching ? Jean-Jacques Rousseau ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ? Victor Hugo ? Salvador Allende ? Dick Gregory ? Emiliano Zapata ? Oprah Winfrey ? Upton Sinclair ? Bill Cosby ? Cesar Chavez ? John Brown ? Various International Proverbs ? Jack London ? Henry David Thoreau ? Frederick Douglass ? Emma Goldman ? Michael Jordan ? George Orwell ? Rage Against The Machine ? Albert Einstein ? Kareem Abdul-Jabar ? Voltaire ? Thomas Carlyle ? Lauryn Hill ? Sojourner Truth ? Depak Chopra ? The Bible ? Prophet Muhammad ? Rumi ? V.I. Lenin ? Meister Eckhart ? Fred Hampton ? Michael Moore ? The Tao ? George Carlin ? Ralph Nader ? Rosa Parks ? Margaret Storm Jameson ? Louis Farrakhan ? Nina Simone ? Yuri Kochiyama ? Woody Guthrie ? Bertrand Russell ? Rosa Luxemburg ? Willie Nelson ? Joan Baez ? Bhagavad-Gita ? Gen. Smedley Butler ? Fyodor Dostoyevsky ? Duke Ellington ? Ralph Waldo Emerson ? Jawanza Kunjufu ? Erich Fromm ? Jimi Hendrix ? Big Elk ? Fannie Lou Hamer ? Immanuel Kant ? Ziggy Marley ? Poor Richard's Almanac ? Public Enemy ? Bill Russell ? Kenneth Stampp ? Spock ? Peter Tosh ? Nat Turner ? Desmond Tutu ? Sun Tzu ? Booker T. Washington ? Saul Alinsky ? The Zulu Declaration ? Brother ? A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs On ? God ? Faith ? Endurance ? Agitate ?Organize ? Unity ? Commun-all-ism ? Comrades ? Enemies ? No (Know) Sellouts ? United Snakes of America ? Poli-tricks ? The Rich & Greedy ? Warmongers ? The Slick, Selfish & Wicked ? The Humble, Righteous & Just ? Resistance ? Independence ? Criticism/Self-Criticism ? Time ? Tell-Lie-Vision ? Poverty/Class Struggle ? Poli-tricks ? The (In) Just-Us System ? Women ? Children ? Family ? Pride ? Death ? Culture ? History ? Slavery ? The African Holocaust ? The Question of Race ? Religion ? Money ? Work ? Education ? Knowledge & Wisdom ? Political Power ? Socialism ? Revolution ? Free the Land ? Afreeka ? God ?

The untold history of lesbian life from those who have lived it! Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward illuminates the hopes, fears, issues, and concerns of gay women as they grow older. Based on interviews with 62 lesbians ranging in age from 55 to 95, this very special book provides a historical account of the shared experiences of the lesbian community that is so often invisible or ignored in contemporary society. The book gives voice to their thoughts and feelings on a wide range of issues, including coming out, identity and the meaning of life, the role of family and personal relationships, work and retirement, adversity, and individual sources of strength and resilience. Cast off and overlooked at best or victims of scorn and prejudice at worst, lesbians in the twentieth century lived dual lives, their full voices unhearduntil now. Lives of Lesbian Elders chronicles the life choices they made and their reasons for making them, set against the contexts of culture, politics, and the social mores of the eras in which they lived. Their stories of courage, resilience, resourcefulness, pride, and independence help restore lesbian history that has been forgotten, distorted, or disregarded and provide the information necessary to meet the future needs of aging lesbians. Lives of Lesbian Elders gives aging lesbians a chance to discuss their thoughts on a variety of topics, including: Coming out You didn't talk about it . . . Until two years ago, I never even referred to a lesbian or would I allow the word to pass my lips I used to sneak into libraries and read about homosexuality and back in that era, it was not classy . . . it was classified as a disorder of some type Identity The only difference between me and anybody else is that I just happen to be sleeping with a woman I think I grew up not really knowing who I was and, I think, probably fighting all my life trying to find out who I was Family I feel very connected with the lesbian community here . . . I guess I would call that family Many years ago, my sister said: 'I think when they're ready, you need to explain to (the nieces) what a lesbian is, because I want them to hear the correct story . . . I want them to hear what it really is and not all these stupid rumors that go around' Work I was going to become a youth minister at one point and it dawned on me in high school that there was no way the church was going to let me work with kids I didn't really finish my career . . . I still have dreams about the military and about not finishing . . . It was my choice, but it wasn't really my choice Aging and the Future I think financing, of course, is a real big problem for lesbian women I have a concern that if anything should happen to my partnerin growing olderof being isolated from the gay community . . . and much more! Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward also includes appendices that present demographic data on the women who were interviewed for the book, information on historical timelines, and suggested readings on lesbian history. The book is an invaluable addition to the growing collective history of lesbians in the United States.

In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord's notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now "spectacle" can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin's plea to "explode the continuum of history" and bring our attention to now-time.

In Running, former NCAA Division I track athlete Lindsey A. Freeman presents the feminist and queer handbook of running that she always wanted but could never find. For Freeman, running is full of joy, desire, and indulgence in the pleasure and weirdness of having a body. It allows for a space of freedom—to move and be moved. Through tender storytelling of a lifetime wearing running shoes, Freeman considers injury and recovery, what it means to run as a visibly queer person, and how the release found in running comes from a desire to touch something that cannot be accessed when still. Running invites us to run through life, legging it out the best we can with heart and style.

In Running, former NCAA Division I track athlete Lindsey A. Freeman presents the feminist and queer handbook of running that she always wanted but could never find. For Freeman, running is full of joy, desire, and indulgence in the pleasure and weirdness of having a body. It allows for a space of freedom-to move and be moved. Through tender storytelling of a lifetime wearing running shoes, Freeman considers injury and recovery, what it means to run as a visibly queer person, and how the release found in running comes from a desire to touch something that cannot be accessed when still. Running invites us to run through life, legging it out the best we can with heart and style.