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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Straw Poll Coordinator Kathryn Keough '89 said she expected about 3000 undergraduates to "vote" in the mock election. Members will tabulate the results by Thursday, using a Boston University computer, she said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

At first Tim Barnett did not believe his own data. "I thought it was an error in the computer code," says the climate researcher at California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. For one thing, the little-known phenomenon his model was predicting had not been witnessed since the mid- 1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Chill for the Greenhouse | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Two Kentucky kindergarten teachers, Mildred and Patty Hill, published Happy Birthday in 1893 as Good Morning to All and later added the familiar lyrics. The song was copyrighted in 1935 and earns $1 million a year in royalties. Japan's Casio Computer company, for instance, pays a 1 cents fee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COPYRIGHTS: Cake, Candles Not Included | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Butler's rocks will not turn any heads at Cartier; the largest is a few thousandths of an inch thick. But the sturdy crystals could be used to make wear-resistant machine tools, for example, or scratch-proof lenses. Diamonds would even make first-rate computer chips if they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Say It with Sewage Gas | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

"I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick," cracked the ebullient director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. Leon Lederman, 66, had a premonition that there would be good news from Stockholm this year. "This is the year for the geriatric Nobel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Tales Of Patience and Triumph | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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