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...computer age, factoring, which can involve trying out seemingly endless combinations of numbers, is an extremely time-consuming process. While it may be easy to factor a low number like 323, Rivest calculates that if the product were, say, 200 digits long, it would take even the fastest and most powerful computers millions of centuries to factor it. Unless some mathematical whiz devised a new high-speed factoring technique, the code would, in effect, be uncrackable...
...millionaire many times over but lives in two small, slovenly kept hotel rooms. He travels with the fastest crowd in the country but rarely drinks and never snorts or smokes. He is offered the best jobs in his profession but turns most of them down. His idea of sin is to eat ice cream. His idea of a great time is to talk on the phone. His idea of heaven is to spend hours debating the pros and cons of Proposition 13. He wears dirty jeans three days in a row, chews vitamin pills and remembers everything. He makes coast...
...year-old Julie Nolan of Jefferson High School. Sport is, and will remain, part of her life. "I've been running since the fifth or sixth grade. I want to run in college and then run in marathons." She admires Marathoner Miki Gorman, who ran her fastest when she was in her 40s. "That's what I'd like to be doing," she says. Asked if she has been treated differently since she got involved in sports, this once-and-future athlete seemed perplexed: "I don't know, because I've always been an athlete...
HOSPITAL COSTS. Nearly 12¢ of every federal tax dollar is now spent on health care, and 9¢ of that amount goes to hospitals, the fastest rising expense in the ever expanding Medicare and Medicaid programs. So many beneficiaries are checking into hospitals that the program's costs have skyrocketed, from $16.5 billion in 1974 to $31.3 billion in 1977. Nor have hospitals been reluctant to cash in on a program that asks few questions no matter how high the bills. The price of an average hospital stay has jumped from $350 in 1965 to $1,300 today...
...event of the day for the eighth-grade students at Ken Caryl Junior High School in suburban Denver is the "Great Boil-Over." Under the rules, contestants are pitted against one another to determine who can boil water fastest ?with the least amount of fuel. The exercise is part of a growing trend in U.S. elementary and high schools: instruction in the basics of energy conservation. The aim is to prepare students for a world where energy is no longer cheap or plentiful. Teachers explain how students' fuel-using habits touch on the larger issues of dwindling supplies...