Word: eyeful
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Jones is moving within range of creating a computer that imitates the eye-to-brain functions which could process vast amounts of information at speeds of about one billionth of a second--faster than the speed the with which state-of-the-art computers operate today...
...computer would also have a major impact on robotics, through its ability to imitate how the human eye transmits messages to the brain...
...contras bottled up in Congress, an intriguing question arises: Could the U.S. funnel arms to Central America through Israel? U.S. officials refused to address the question directly last week, but they conceded that it had the merit Of being logical. Israel has looked on Central America with a kind eye ever since Nicaragua allowed Jewish freedom fighters to ship arms into Israel under the Nicaraguan flag in the late 1940s. In return, Jerusalem has long supplied weapons to several Central American countries, including Guatemala and Honduras. Total sales this year are expected to reach $22 million...
...world like a new-found land. Passionate about art and nature, Adams tolerated the desecration of neither. At his death from heart disease last week near his home in Carmel, Calif., Adams, 82, the bearded and bespectacled photographer who composed his pictures first in his mind's eye, had become nothing less than an American old master...
STRATIS HAVIARAS brings to The Heroic Age the lyrical style, eye for the visual, and economic approach of a poet rather than a novelist. This should not be surprising. Haviaras has written both Greek and English poetry, and is the curator of the Woodberry poetry collection here at Harvard. His second novel. The Heroic Age, recounts the turbulent adolescence of a boy, Panagis, growing up in factious, post-World War II Greece...