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Reagan's refusal so far to make any significant concessions on SDI calls into question what many analysts see as the one plausible rationale for the program: its use as a bargaining chip. None of the other justifications for SDI has ever been entirely credible. Partly for that reason, the Administration has made SDI a moving target for its critics, constantly changing its stated scope and goal...
...Americans feel about the outcome of the Reykjavik summit? Do they think the U.S. should proceed with full development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or that sdi should be used as a bargaining chip? To find out, TIME commissioned a poll of 806 Americans by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. The survey was conducted by telephone last Wednesday, and has a potential sampling error of plus or minus 4%. Summit questions were asked of the 62% who reported following the issue in the news. Some of the findings...
Texas Instruments, which invented the first practical chip in 1958 and remains a major producer, is determined to help lead a U.S. counteroffensive. The company is rolling out devilishly tiny weapons, among them the world's first four-megabit chip, a supersophisticated semiconductor that can store more than 4 million bits of information on a wafer the size of a child's fingernail. Declares Norman Neureiter, a Texas Instruments vice president: "The U.S. semiconductor industry is not rolling over and dying...
...Currently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is the first major museum show of his work, an elaborate installation for which Gehry designed a 23-ft.-high freestanding copper structure, a fish-shaped enclosure, complete with lead "scales," for the exhibition of his fish-shaped Formica- chip lamps and a cardboard space for the exhibition of his cardboard furniture. "I'm trying to pretend it's not a big deal," Gehry said just before the opening in Minneapolis. "But it's a big deal...
...helping to send LP record sales into decline. A CD stores music in digital form in some 15 billion microscopic pits on its aluminum surface. As the CD spins inside its player at up to 500 r.p.m., a laser scans the pits and beams their information to a computer chip for conversion into sound. The true significance of the optical disc lies in its data-storage capacity. A disc 4.7 in. in diameter can store the equivalent of 250,000 pages of typewritten information. So far, the CDs generally can be used only to retrieve data | imprinted on the disc...