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...Japan, there is more at stake than market shares of the next generation of computer hardware. Having already begun the transformation from an industrial economy to one based on gathering and disseminating information, the Japanese now hope to overcome age-old barriers of language and culture with intelligent machines: automatic translation devices coupled with systems that can dispense medical advice, prepare tax returns, design buildings, repair complex electronic equipment. In their vision of the future, fifth-generation computers will be delivery vehicles for the ultimate export products: the know-how and native intelligence of the Japanese people. -By Philip Elmer...
...idea, and not altogether conventional or acceptable. But for a brief moment, Frank Reynolds broke the age-old notion of the unemotional, stolid newsreader, seemingly detached from all that he sees and does. He proved that he was hardly part of a dying breed--above all, he was a human being, and he showed that at a time when it was perhaps most understandable. In the all-important, ultra-professional, multi million dollar business of television news, sometimes that aspect of things is all too easy to forget...
Like many institutions of higher learning. Harvard might best be described as a marketplace of ideas, engaged in the age-old business of dispensing grains of knowledge and pounds of cynicism in exchange for tons of money. While some officials might cringe at the analogy--or insist, at least, that Harvard be known as the Nieman-Marcus of the academic world--the University-as-store model can be tremendously helpful in understanding who's in charge around here...
...there then any hope of victory in the age-old battle against mosquitoes? Probably not, most scientists agree. If the biting really gets bad, the only recourse is to retreat, swatter in hand behind a fine-meshed screen door...
TIME sees the bishops' pastoral letter as "a classic example of the church's age-old effort to use moral idealism to change the realities of politics." However, the only practical solution to the nuclear threat is a moral solution. Nothing is more timeworn than the ancient ruse that morality and practicality are opposites. To deny the moral solution is to deny our common humanity on a small planet and to assure its destruction. Is that practical...