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Many of the scientific breakthroughs that businesses will need in order to make Star Wars a reality may come from university laboratories. SDIO has awarded $19 million to a five-member consortium made up of Auburn, Polytechnic Institute of New York, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Texas Tech and the University of Texas at Arlington. Their mission: to develop a power system for Star Wars weaponry. SDIO also approved a $9 million grant to a group of scientists at nine universities and other research institutions, including Carnegie-Mellon, Caltech, M.I.T. and Stanford. They will try to develop...
University scientists engaged in Star Wars research staunchly defend their work, noting that the Soviets are building their own missile defenses. Says Wayne Anderson, a professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo: "If we don't compete, we're in trouble." Other Star Wars supporters contend that the program need not lead to an escalation of the arms race. "We could offer to share our technology for stability and tie that to an arms build-down," says Robert McCrory, director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester...
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.--Kay Stephenson, whose Buffalo Bills won only two of their National Football League games last season and are winless so far this year, was fired yesterday as head coach, the team announced...
...changes come as Playboy attempts to revive a beleaguered business. Today there are only a dozen Playboy clubs, down from 22 in the mid-1960s. The clubs prosper mainly in smaller towns, including Buffalo and Des Moines, where martinis and ogling are still in style...
...towns like Oak Hills, Ohio. Under attack in Madison, W. Va., and Peoria, Ill., are books of sexual counsel, including Changing Bodies, Changing Lives and A Way of Love, A Way of Life, as well as such popular Judy Blume novels for teenagers as Forever and Deenie. In Buffalo, the Protestant right is allied with conservative Catholics in opposing the so-called Epic program in area grade schools. This parent-and- teacher guidance course is aimed at stemming alcoholism, child abuse and teen pregnancy, but foes say it probes too deeply into the privacy of children and teaches youngsters that...