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...talks to monitors, not people," says Tom Shales, the television critic for the Washington Post Koppel likes "Nightline"'s style, which places him in Washington or New York, while his far-flung guests appear on large video screens before him. "I'm insulated," Koppel says. "I'm a queen bee connected electronically to everyone else...
...highly secret defense projects, including nuclear weaponry. Last week Sandia exploded a different sort of bombshell. Its mathematicians announced that they had factored a 69-digit number, the largest ever to be subjected to such numerical dissection. Their triumph is more than an intellectual exercise. It could have far-flung repercussions for national security. As anyone who has ever passed through intermediate algebra knows (or once knew), factoring means breaking a number into its smallest whole-number multiplicands greater than 1. For example, 3 and 5 are the only such factors of 15. But as numbers get larger, factoring them...
...company Morgan found when he arrived in California consisted of a dozen separate corporate satrapies devoid of planning or consultation. At least 49 Atari buildings were spread around company headquarters in the Silicon Valley sprawl of Sunnyvale, Calif. Often the heads of those far-flung divisions were not even located in the Atari headquarters building. The company had to call in a management firm to locate some 48 engineering groups in the U.S. It found a one-man operation in Louisville, apparently there because that was where the engineer preferred to live. The company had five finance departments, each with...
...America and the world, have shown similar reactions. Anyone who has passed by the White House in the past three years has undoubtedly witnessed a vigil of some sort on Pennsylvania Ave--one of those ragged collections of souls mourning the slaughter of their fellow men in some far-flung corner of the world. A man in Alabama made headlines last spring when he tried to set himself on fire to protest unemployment in America. Others have been more concerted in their protest, organizing massive marches on New York or Washington, circulating petitions, writing to Congressmen, trying, somehow, to express...
...their confessions are even partially true, Lucas and Toole could be textbook examples of a new breed of killer: the serial murderer, whose victims are numerous and whose crimes are geographically far-flung and committed over a period of many years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that serial murderers are behind some 35 death sprees currently under investigation. Alfred Regnery, administrator of the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, estimates that of the 21,000 murders committed in the U.S. last year, several thousand can be attributed to this kind of psychopath. "The serial murderer doesn...