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...think of what I did as time off; for me it was time on. Getting beyond the lecture halls and really for the first time being a part of that bigger world gives my formal education a third dimension. It's the difference between a square and a cube...
...calculate it," says Rubik with a trace of mischief. "No one has so far." The Hungarian entrepreneur, however, has had no trouble calculating the commercial potential of his new gizmo, which is about to go on sale in the U.S. for $10. "All the people who liked the Cube will like Magic," predicts Rubik. "And there's a whole generation of young people who didn't get the Cube, who are now old enough to try Magic." Mathematical progressions are a wonderful thing...
...occasionally innovative film industry passed last January from the Ministry of Culture to the Ministry of Radio and Television, a conservative bastion. Authorities yanked a Peking play about youths who suffered because of the Cultural Revolution. Yet they allowed audiences to see a satirical work called Rubik's Cube that lampooned various aspects of Chinese life. Faced with criticism on so many fronts, reformers launched counterattacks to keep their revolution rolling. Premier Zhao Ziyang's State Council issued new regulations urging plant managers to establish direct links with their customers and suppliers in order to skirt the ponderous Chinese bureaucracy...
With its black-tinted panels and pulsing red indicator lights, it bears a striking resemblance to Joshua, the fictional computer that plays chess and thermonuclear war in the movie WarGames. But this is the real thing. Inside a 5-ft. Lexon plastic cube is a powerful new computer called the Connection Machine, which not only looks different from most mainframes, it is different...
...following writers contributed to this section: Geoff Simon, Mark Brazaitis, Michael J. Lartigue, Casey J. Lartigue, Jr., Ken Segel, and Steve Li. The Team of the Year and Player of the Year were selected by vote of the Harvard Crimson Sports Cube...