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The approximately 30 researchers at the laboratory envision a future with robots acting as reliable errand-runners, able to change batteries in an orbiting satellite or drive to school and pick up the children.

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Of Microchips and Men | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

More important than all the political gambits and the thunder from both ends of the spectrum will be the testimony of one man. "If you are looking for a secret weapon in the upcoming confirmation hearings," says Hatch, "it is Judge Robert Bork. The longer he testifies before the Judiciary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advise and Dissent | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

Nowhere has the issue of Asian-American student admission been more bitterly fought than at Berkeley. Activist groups charge that if acceptances were based purely on merit, there would be even more Asian-American students than the 5,610 who now make up a quarter of the 22,000 undergraduates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The New Whiz Kids | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Out of the ashes came pious promises from politicians and the rhetoric of renewed resolve. "The only genuine long-range solution for what has happened lies in an attack -- mounted at every level -- upon the conditions that breed despair and violence," proclaimed President Lyndon Johnson. No one seriously thought the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghetto: From Bad to Worse | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

Although media companies are now some of the largest, most influential and most profitable -- many would say most arrogant -- institutions in U.S. society, the Constitution does not envision the press primarily as part of an establishment from which individuals need protection. It instead sees the press as standing in for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESS Jousts Without Winners | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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