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Unlike previous years, Harvard will not play an Eastern League team until the season's second weekend. Instead, four non-league opponents--MIT. Boston College, Northeastern and UMass--will help the squad adjust to the chilly North after a week in Florida...
Research into voice-recognition machines is particularly active in Japan. Nissan Motor Co. last October unveiled its model of a car for the handicapped that uses voice recognition to adjust the driver's seat and outside rear-view mirror, as well as to turn on the windshield wipers, lights and radio. A group of scientists at Tokyo University has developed a machine that allows an immobilized patient to change the position of his bed and order food and drink from a robot nurse...
...demolished the more expensive competition, pulling in $8 million its first weekend. Next week moviegoers will be able to see yet another facet of Pryor when Some Kind of Hero opens. In it he plays the seriocomic role of a Viet Nam vet who tries to adjust to the apathy and red tape he finds back home...
Rates exploded after the PUC granted PG&E and San Diego Gas & Electric increases of $909 million and $166 million, respectively. In January, PG&E was also allowed to adjust its "tier system," by which the electrical charges go up as usage increases. As a result, at least 50% of the state's residents saw their bills double and in some cases triple...
...take from three to six weeks or people to adjust to life with less salt. After making the break, many prefer lower-salt foods. Says Ardelle Tuma, vice president of Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott department stores: "I found that unsalted butter has a fantastic taste all its own, and vegetables have a finer, purer flavor without salt." The reason may be that a high-salt diet blunts the natural ability to perceive salt, while cutting back makes the palate more sensitive. Research by Berkeley Food Sciolist Angela Little has led her to believe that "high intake of salt...