Word: andromedae
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...Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton...
...collective memory of the war against the predator beasts is preserved in myth and fairy tale. Typically, a mythical hero starts out by taking on the carnivorous monster that is ravaging the land: Perseus saves Andromeda from becoming a sea monster's snack. Theseus conquers the Minotaur who likes to munch on Athenian youth. Beowulf destroys the loathsome night-feeding Grendel. Heracles takes on a whole zoo of horrors: lions, hydras, boars. In European fairy tales it's the wolves you have to watch out for -- if the cannibal witches don't get you first...
Before His Time--It seems that author Michael Crichton '64 is already making an impact on Harvard's Board of Overseers, to which he was elected last June. When the Board began discussing computer technology for the University last weekend, Crichton, who wrote the The Andromeda Strain, a novel about high-tech efforts to fight an extraterrestial microbe, was especially interested. According to another overseer, "There's nothing [being developed now] that wasn't in the The Andromeda Strain 25 years...
...executive John A. Armstrong '56 and Michael Crichton '64, author of the science fiction novel The Andromeda Strain, which described high-tech efforts to battle a mutating extraterrestrial virus, showed a particular interest in the use of computers for teaching, one overseer said...
...There's nothing [being developed now] that wasn't in The Andromeda Strain 25 years ago," said the overseer...