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Stanislaw Lem's stories are somewhat like the enormous gag that Edwin Land, the wealthy inventor of the camera that bears his name, pulled on Harvard when he tied his contribution for the Science Center to the stipulation that the structure look like his photographic brainchild. Lem is an absurd humorist whose jokes are too big to be funny. He writes of a world gone mad. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub and The Futurological Congress are tales set in future societies that no longer know where they have come from or where they are going. Indeed, they no longer know...
This no-nonsense "doctor" is the brainchild of Dr. Norman Jensen, director of adult medicine at Madison's University of Wisconsin Hospitals, and his colleague, Larry Van Cura, a computer specialist. What distinguishes it from other diagnostic computers is that it allows a direct dialogue between patient and machine and, math whiz that it is, delivers an almost instant assessment of health risks. Jensen also sees the inexpensive computerized checkup ($10) as an alternative to costly annual physicals. For those under 40 who show no signs of ill health, an increasing number of physicians are no longer recommending such...
...lively and resilient modern ball was the brainchild of Coburn Haskell, who proposed a rubber core. Nowadays, wind tunnels are used to gauge flight trajectory and a miniature guillotine tests the toughness of the cover. The latest breakthrough in the industry is the truncated dimple, and a controversy rages over the relative merits of balata or surlyn covered balls. Balata is a kind of tree gum, and surlyn is a synthetic material pioneered by Dupont...
...bill, which is Smith's own brainchild, would disassociate the financing of local schools from the revenue obtained by the state's local property tax. Instead, citizens would pay an amount equal to a percentage of their federal income tax to support the school system. Particular aspects of the bill appeal naturally to both conservatives, who support property tax relief and liberals, who feel the new local income tax would be more equitable...
Gatling is one of the 615 convicts who have graduated in the past three years from "street-law" courses taught in correctional institutions in the Washington, D.C., area. The program is the brainchild of Jason Newman, 37, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center who believes lawyers must do more "to have laymen understand the legal system and know it's there to help them, so they can use it and not abuse...