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...everyone listens to the music. Blues are too nasty and too raggedy to make it onto the pop charts unpasteurized. B.B. King and Muddy Waters have the names, but Eric Clapton's elegant revisionism makes the hits. For someone who plays and sings the blues as righteously as Robert Cray, it might be expected that he would become just another dimly remembered performer, hunkered down, playing the shellac off old 78s by forgotten Mississippi bands. That is not the way of it, though. In this, and in much else, Robert Cray has a different way about...
...Cray, 33, heard Clapton before he had completed his classical blues curriculum, and the music on his fifth and newest album, Strong Persuader, a collaboration among several songwriters, has the cool and sexy finesse of prime Eric, even as it does the grand masters proud. "I try to keep my ears open to all kinds of things," Cray says, and that receptivity is now paying off. His guitar playing, as precise as a laser beam, and the tormented romanticism of his songs have helped land a major-label record deal and a heavy dose of attention...
...every working day. When a reporter calls with a question that he cannot immediately answer, Daly plugs into a network that reaches from the company's Pittsburgh headquarters to its El Segundo, Calif., aerospace facility, linking 10,000 terminals, 7,000 personal computers, 60 high-performance minicomputers and one Cray X-MP supercomputer. Tapping that electronic brain trust, he can quickly get answers on anything from the status of Rockwell's satellites to the prospects for more B-1 bombers. "The value of networking is that you can share data and information," says James Sutter, Rockwell's general manager...
Hillis may be using hyperbole. But if the initial kinks can be worked out, his strange new machine will be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 1 billion instructions a second--roughly the power of a Cray X-MP supercomputer but at a quarter the cost. Moreover, the Connection Machine offers the hope of solving problems in machine vision and artificial intelligence for which today's supercomputers are woefully ill equipped. Says Stephen Squires, a spokesman for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department bureau that put up $4.7 million for the computer's development...
...first-time home buyers needed two incomes to make payments on their mortgages. In 1949 the average 30-year-old male homeowner spent 14% of his earnings on mortgage payments; by 1983 the proportion had climbed to 44%. For some the sacrifice has meant forgoing additional children. Tom Cray, 36, of Rochester, and his wife Jean, 41, would like to have a second child, but they are not sure their two salaries will stretch to cover the mortgage and two children. Says Cray: "It's depressing to think human life has a price...