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...show twice as much detail as a standard computer screen. But the key breakthrough is embodied in Lisa's software, the computer codes that make the machine much easier to operate than any other desktop computer. The operator simply takes the mouse in hand, and a little black arrow springs to life on the screen. That arrow can then be directed toward the postage stamp-size pictures lining the bottom of the screen. These are Lisa's "icons," graphic symbols representing such everyday objects as a trash can, a clipboard, file folders, a calculator, a battery-operated clock...
When you have uncles named Kenneth J. Arrow and Paul A. Samuelson, it must be pretty difficult not to go into economics. And so Lawrence H. Summers, a nephew of those two prominent contemporary economists and Nobel laureates, took the easy route...
Witnesses said the man had spent part of last night in the Bow and Arrow...
Such misgivings, if true, had never surfaced before. As the fourth of five children in his south St. Louis working-class neighborhood, White was well behaved and earnest, a clean-cut straight arrow who talked about making a career of the Army. "Why," wondered his incredulous mother, "would he give up all that for one bowl of rice a day for the rest of his life...
Ultimately, one must go to the fighting front to find out what is really happening there. The Iraqis have built hillocks topped with markers to show the way: here an arrow-shaped stone, there a palm frond. To miss these is to wander into the extensive Iraqi minefields. Forcing the Iranians into those minefields is one secret of Iraq's success. At one point two miles from the international border, the sand is littered with Iranian bodies as far as the eye can see, when it is not squinting against the blowing sand. An Iraqi bulldozer is pushing...