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...individual teachers, Chip Morris says of Lucinda Childs, his choreography teacher, "She's kind of inscrutable. It seems she doesn't want to interfere heavily with the class. It seems she wants people to have their own opinions...
...still-photography standards. The CCD can store only 380,000 pixels, or individual picture elements, the tiny dots that form an image. A normal 35-mm photograph contains 18 million pixels. Canon is working on the problem, however, and rival Eastman Kodak says it has already developed a chip that can store up to 1.4 million pixels...
...Doerr can look down from his 35th-floor corner office in Embarcadero Center on the sailboats plying San Francisco Bay. Taking in the view may be the only truly restful thing that Doerr, 34, normally ever does. He has been a relentless overachiever since he joined the blue-chip San Francisco venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980. Three years later Doerr became one of five general partners (there are seven today). Among the companies that he has spotted for investment are Cypress Semiconductor, Sun Microsystems and Businessland, all Silicon Valley firms involved in various aspects...
This combination of money and technology, show biz and sex appeal strikes many foreigners as the epitome of the American success story, and so they adopt English words that imply success itself: super, blue chip, boom, status symbol, summit. Some of that, clearly, is just snobbery. Through U.S. television, says British Grammarian Randolph Quirk, a foreigner can pick up an Americanized vocabulary "if you want to show you're with it and talking like Americans, the most fashionable people on earth." On the other hand, some upper-class Egyptian youths think it is chic to use Anglo-Saxon four-letter...
...scanned three months of Reuters news stories--16,000 articles in all --in / of a second. In two seconds, it transformed a stereoscopic image transmitted by a pair of television cameras into a detailed, two-dimensional contour map. In three minutes, it laid out the circuitry for a computer chip containing 4,000 transistors. Says Daniel Hillis, the computer's 29-year-old designer and co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass.: "The conventional computer is to the Connection Machine what the bicycle is to a supersonic...