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...seen such a bumper crop since it stopped growing peaches and prunes and began producing computer chips. Hardly a week has gone by this spring without a ballyhooed announcement of a new semiconductor or a line of high-speed computers. At the center of the excitement is a new breed of microprocessors that promises to give computer manufacturers their biggest performance boost in a decade. Lightning fast, the chips make it possible to put the power of ten to 20 refrigerator-size minicomputers into a single desktop-size machine...
...breed of lightning- fast silicon chips challenges 25 years of computer design. -- Has the picture phone finally arrived...
...patent office last week granted exclusive marketing rights to Harvard for a genetically altered strain of mice designed by Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder '56. Although the new breed of mice was created for cancer research, the patent office's decision has come under attack by some members of Congress, who charge it has preempted congressional debate on the ethics of patenting animals...
...thought we had his character analysis correct down to the last petty neurosis. After all, he seemed a textbook case of rabidly loyal third world dictator. Why, his sense of loyalty seemed so profound that his vicious jackboot secret police force were nicknamed after a breed of dog: dobermans. They dressed in black. A nice touch...
...Rocky and Barco worried? No, but their handlers are. The two agents are Belgian Malinois, a breed of dog similar to the German shepherd that sniffs out drugs. "The South has never seen anything so good," said Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Jack Vickery, who last week announced that there would be additional protective measures for the dogs. Next week, four new members of the canine corps will report for duty...