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Probably one of the most popular spots in the area lies just off the Square. The Picadilly Filly (123 Mt. Auburn St.) is your basic, unpretentious bar--rare for Harvard. This is the place for college kids to drink cheap beer, play quarters, and ogle the opposite sex. The Filly starts getting crowded around 10:30 p.m.; the bouncer goes on duty at 10. Weekends this is a hot spot and the temperature cools down only slightly during the week...
...brilliant. Of the 20,000 people employed by Bell Labs in 19 facilities spread throughout the nation, 2,769 are Ph.D.s. "The brainpower around here is enormous," says Physicist Horst Stormer, referring to the Murray Hill branch, where a force of 3,200 does much of Bell's basic research. "This is like a university with a faculty of 500 physicists. If all of us took off and went to different universities, we wouldn't have the same impact." But clumped together, like uranium fuel rods in a reactor, the physicists and other Murray Hillers form what Physicist Douglas Osheroff...
...been influenced by Louis Dell'Olio, but it would be equally impossible to find an Italian leather blouson that is not derived in some way from the rumble-ready splendor of an American black leather motorcycle jacket. Paris' Claude Montana appears almost invariably in some combination of the same basic outfit: jeans, T shirt, a hooded sweatshirt and a nylon military jacket lined in phosphorescent orange. Montana may make some of the hottest duds on the runways, but he looks strictly made in the U.S.A...
Most computers built in the past 40 years were designed to do one thing at a time. Following the basic concept conceived by John von Neumann and his colleagues in 1945, they consist of a single, high-speed central processing unit connected to an array of memory cells. "The two-part architecture keeps the silicon devoted to processing wonderfully busy," says Hillis. "But this is only 2% or 3% of the silicon area. The other 97% (the memory bank) sits idle...
...ordinary postadolescent backpacker, for the season is bone-chilling winter, and she is not on a voyage of self-discovery prior to beginning graduate school. She has no home, no friends and no history she cares to discuss--even with herself. Her thoughts are focused on such basic matters as food and shelter...