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...Nike Zeus still has a long way to go, and the Defense Department is withholding $125 million appropriated for Nike Zeus production until the Army solves some major problems. For one, its radar so far cannot distinguish between a real warhead and a decoy. For another, while it is efficient on a single target, the Zeus cannot make a choice when a "package," or barrage of missiles appears. Finally, last week's Nike Hercules target missile was tracking at only 3,000 m.p.h. In a test scheduled for the Pacific next summer, the Nike Zeus will attempt to down...
...accommodate on-campus residents. If you live within a 15-mile radius of the university, you cannot reside on campus. However, each of the colleges is large, and has a dining room and cafeteria. The colleges are known for certain attributes. Trinity reveres its academic tradition, and academic robes distinguish the daily garb of its members. The University, in contrast, is known for its cafeteria political debates...
When we add to Groddeck's postulate that the It creates everything human the proposition that it is a distortion for a society to distinguish between sick and healthy, we arrive at his radical critique of culture. The prevailing ideas of society, he writes, rationalize the sickness of the majority while emphasizing the neuroses of the minority: "The exhibitionist is in the same class as all those other people labeled with the final 'ist,' the sadist, the masochist, the fetichist. They are in essence the same as ourselves, who call ourselves healthy; the sole difference is that we allow...
...speech. IBM Engineer William C. Dersch, inventor of Shoebox, thinks that this is like designing an airplane by copying a bird's feathers. His machine does not depend on sound frequencies; it recognizes words by listening for their "asymmetry," an esoteric quality of speech that human ears cannot distinguish but that Shoebox finds as clear as the beat of a bass drum...
Edward Jenner had found, before 1800, an empirical method of protecting man against one dread disease now known to be caused by a virus: infection with cowpox ("vaccinia," hence the general term vaccination) would ward off later infection with the deadly and disfiguring smallpox (so called to distinguish it from syphilis, "the great pox"). Louis Pasteur achieved a similar triumph of empiricism. Unable to isolate the microbe of rabies, he simply assumed that it was too small to be seen and developed the Pasteur treatment for victims of bites by rabid animals...