Greek inscriptions indicate that as early as the fourth century B.C. people have used abbreviated script in an attempt to keep pace with the speed of speech (140 words per minute, on average). The first known organized system of shorthand writing, or...

1551?-1615 English physician and cleric who is credited with developing the first modern shorthand system, which he initially used to transcribe an epistle of St. Paul. Bright's characters were arranged in 18 vertical rows, similar to the method...

Shorthand is an abbreviated, symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a normal method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow, close) and graphos...

Francois de Menil investigates changing spatial conditions for a modest house in Houston. Francois de Menil has given new meaning to the phrase "smart house." For a residence he created a few blocks from Rice University in Houston, "smart" refers not to...

A couple of weeks ago in this space I tried to figure out why so much of the cataclysmic news out of Eastern Europe had come as such a surprise. Forgive me: obsessed with the subject, I am returning to it this week with...

Rasheed Wallace was suspended, Richard Hamilton was out sick and Chris Webber wasn't feeling much better. The Detroit Pistons responded with their second-biggest scoring outburst of the season.Tayshaun Prince scored 28 points, and reserves Jason Maxiell, Antonio McDyess and Flip Murray also looked unstoppable at...

Brian Butch scored 22 points on 7-of-12 shooting and No. 25 Wisconsin continued its home dominance in the Big Ten with a 64-51 victory over Iowa on Saturday.The Badgers (12-2, 2-0) won their sixth straight game even with a tepid early shooting performance other than...