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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leakey, the chairman of FROM, discussed several areas for investigation, including the point at which man and ape diverged in the evolutionary sequence, the causes of the brain enlargement of man and his most recent ancestors, and the origins of primitive art. He also argued that it was the move to a bipedal stance--not the development of tool-making or the enlargement of the brain--that spurred man's evolution...

Author: By Jonathan Shayne, | Title: Leakey Speech | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...Boston has a series starting about 2 a.m. called "The Moooooooovies," as its theme song syncopates, accompanied by poorly-drawn, tacky animated dancers apparently trying to kick their way out of some eternal fire. The extravaganza is always reserved for one of the worst movies every conceived: Twisted Brain. They Saved Hitler's Brain. Varan the Incredible. Terror in the Jungle. The combined budget for these classics doesn't approach what the Reagans spend on china. One night, the title thus announced is The Terror. I salivate with delight, in anticipation of true terribleness. The stars' names appear. Boris Karloff...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...page report explaining his action, but the city's most popular disc jockey told his audience: "Shintaku can take that report and shove it up his-nose." Then came news that Judge Shintaku had been found by relatives battered and dazed at his beachfront cottage. After doctors performed brain surgery for three hours and tended to Shintaku's broken collarbone, they predicted that he would be sidelined for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Open Season on the Judiciary | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

First time in history, earth's people (4.2 billion in 1981) use the brain which a boundlessly resourceful nature has endowed them with. Work on 3 problems: disarmament, population control and environmentalism. By 2000 the world's moving in the right direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

...kind of industrial revolution is brewing in the factories of American industry. It goes by the acronym of CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/ Computer-Aided Manufacturing), and at its heart lies a wondrous, and immensely profitable, link between the electronic brain and the mechanical hand. It is a link that stretches from the designing room to the shop floor, and its simple aim is to boost sagging American industrial productivity. The key is the insertion of computer intelligence directly into every nook and cranny of industrial manufacturing, from product conceptualization to the myriad tasks of actual production. In so doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now the Star Wars Factory | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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