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...causes and conflicts. A Japanese peace group displayed life-size photographs of atom-bomb victims. The Pan Africanist Congress, a black South African liberation group, tacked up a banner showing a female guerrilla fighter. Free-form discussions of war and peace went on all day in three large blue-and-white-striped tents, known collectively as the Peace Tent. There all the gathering's anxious, angry or exhausted vented their hopes and fears. Over and over, women spoke in sweeping terms of the absurdity of the arms race. "Men never talk about peace, only arms," said Edith Ballantyne, general secretary...
...Today editors are acutely aware of the importance of these three stories to sales. Many potential customers buy it from one of more than 100,000 blue-and-white vending machines, where only the top half of the front page is visible. To remind editors of this, boxes are planted throughout the paper's wedge-shaped headquarters in Arlington...
Once the color and intensity of each point of light have been calculated, those data are converted directly into the pixels, or picture elements, that make up the images on the computer's screen. Each pixel is either red, green or blue. When viewed from a distance, however, they coalesce like the dots in a pointillist painting. Says Lucasfilm's Cook: "It's like mixing paint. If you stand back, they all blend together...
Compensation: Under threat of public foreclosure, make all the Final Clubs change their animal names into plant names. Or protozoa, but nothing as cool as archaebacteria. And force the Oak to rename itself the Blue-Footed Booby. Humiliation is the only thing that works on these kids...
...warm spring nights approach, Harvard students trekking back to the Quad from late night River revelry can walk confidently where they once feared to tread: blue light phones have finally been installed in Cambridge Common...