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...easy being a member of the Pi Eta Speakers Association, Inc. these days...
Interviews this week with at least six women who have attended Pi Eta parties paint a picture of "a meat market" atmosphere at the club, where women, they say, are treated disrespectfully...
Going to a campus party should be a fun and safe way to spend the evening. But if the reports of a rape at the Pi Eta Club are true, this might not be the case...
...spring. In April NEC, one of Japan's three supercomputer makers, announced a machine it claims is eight times faster than the speediest Cray. A week later Cray's crosstown rival Control Data declared that after five years and $238 million in losses, it was closing its supercomputer subsidiary, ETA Systems. That left Cray as the last U.S. company still racing the Japanese for pre-eminence in what both countries view as a technology critical to the future of science and industry...
Reaction was swift. On Wall Street Cray's stock fell 10% in one day. In Japan some thought they smelled a "political maneuver." Since U.S. agencies like to have at least two bidders on any contract, the exit of ETA opened a window of opportunity for Cray's Japanese rivals. The Cray split, they suspect, may have been designed to close that window. Cray officials do not deny it. Chuckles one: "They got the message in a hurry...