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...momentous as such developments are, they have so far touched only a fraction of the country. With a quarter of the world's people scattered across 3.69 million sq. mi., China is so vast and complex that even the most far-reaching reforms will take years to filter down to every farm, village and faraway province. Nor can any regime transform almost overnight a proud nation saddled with a 3,000-year history of turbulence...
...handful of nations around the world have entered a high stakes race to develop faster and more efficient supercomputers. Ten billion dollars have been committed to such research by industries around the world. The investment, however, is only a fraction of the envisioned spoils; the winner will corner a five-hundred billion dollar-a-year market of information-age business. The ultimate Prize is even greater-the development of artificial intelligence...
...still at large. The premise behind the piece is that, two hundred years ago, the town of Kulyenchikov was laid under a curse by a disgruntled inhabitant. Two things can life the curse. Either an outsider must raise the intelligence of anyone in the town by even a tiny fraction or the descendants of two old families must marry resolving in matrimony the conflict which first produced the curse...
...question is more one of principle than reality. Defense Department officials say that the Pentagon funds compose only a small fraction of University research. Harvard, for instance, only receives about $4 million, a small portion of the more than $100 million the entire federal government doles out here. But the quest for censorship in this area is indicative of the general Administration instinct concerning information--to suppress...
...ground and burnt." (And we are the ones with sick minds?) This is totally unacceptable and must be stopped. If The Crimson is only interested in news, as one editor told me, they should have made it a point to ascertain the total story before they printed a small fraction of it. The National Enquirer can be interested in selling copies; The Crimson should be interested in the truth...