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...THIS TRAGEDY could find no clearer expression than in Moraes's biography. He relates the English attitudes of the Nehru dynasty and their involvement in the politics of liberation. Nehru's tenure as India's first prime minister is largely skipped over, while Moraes highlights the struggles that have marked Mrs. Gandhi's volatile career. Moraes's narrative of the British-educated hero and heroine is excessively British itself. His obtuse style includes so many allusions to English literature that one might think he were writing about Queen Victoria, not Indira Gandhi. And he might as well be. His presentation...
According to Consumer Reports, the 1.4 billion gal. a day of H2O that gush through the city's faucets are fresher, clearer and "more stimulating" than all 37 varieties of commercial bottled water tested. For those who insist on decanting their liquids, Macy's is even selling the stuff with a spritz of carbonation under the gold label: CELEBRATED NEW YORK WATER -THE DRINK OF MILLIONS. The price...
...interested in short-term profits than in research. Government regulations have been too restrictive, science education too lax. But the decline is also due to the cautionary voice of citizens, a voice grown stronger in the past several years as the ramifications of what science can achieve have become clearer and more frightening. Harvard's Daniel Bell has pointed out that most of America's early inventors-Eli Whitney, Edison, the Wright brothers- were tinkerers with tunnel vision. They could afford to be; life was not seen as a continuum in those days. Today's inventors must...
...technique called "gray-imaging." Similar to Rosen's system but more elaborate, the Lockheed method uses a camera image that contains 100,000 different dots, each graded from 0 for pure white to 255 for pure black. The different shades of gray give the robot a much clearer three-dimensional view of what it is confronting...
...Crimson travel on to Fenn this weekend for their first Ivy match they'll have a much clearer picture of their strengths and weaknesses. Penn promises to be a tough match, they narrowly defeated the Crimson last year and the hoopsters go looking for revenge...