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At the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, mathematicians plot complex equations on a computer-graphics terminal, which translates the numbers and symbols into form and color. Watching a curving, perforated object take form on the screen, the mathematicians gradually become convinced that they have produced a new shape with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Pictures Worth A Million Bytes | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

(c)What is much more insidious, however, and illustrates how a political opinion is passed off as political "science" is the classification of the Union of South Africa as a "satisfied society". In what sense were (are) 20 million Blacks "satisfied"? In 1968? Today? Note how Huntington's political opinion...

Author: By Serge Lang, | Title: On a Recent Non-Election to the NAS | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

The Secretary also toured the still unfinished chancery at the site of the new U.S. embassy and later told Western and Soviet correspondents, "We now find we have a honeycomb of listening devices" in the building's walls and structural columns. Investigators, however, have had only mixed success in locating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fallout From The Scandal | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

The treasonous acts attributed to the Marine guards were bad enough. But most of Washington was also belatedly aroused by the long-known and festering problem of the new U.S. embassy compound in Moscow, which was nearing completion when work was halted in 1985. Built from prefabricated sections produced off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crawling with Bugs | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Microphone-transmitters these days can be made about the size of a pinhead and embedded anywhere (or everywhere) in a wall, ceiling, chair or a person's clothing. Some do not need wires to transmit; they send out microwave signals that can be read by equipment outside the building. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of High-Tech Snooping | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

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