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When you're the Senate Democratic Leader, important people see you all the time. Still, last Thursday, when former San Francisco 49er's quarterback Steve Young came to pitch the virtues of geothermal energy and then Miss Nevada stopped by, Nevada Senator Harry Reid was having a good day. In between his more exciting meetings, he sat down for an interview with TIME's Massimo Calabresi and Perry Bacon...
...nights, the wide screens at San Francisco's Moscone Center glowed with some of the most sophisticated computer animations yet produced: TV commercials that showed Chevy vans floating in clouds and Norelco shavers zipping around a racetrack; television network logos replete with spinning globes and sparkling call letters; scientific simulations displaying molecules at magnifications no microscope could achieve; and animal, vegetable and mineral objects more realistically portrayed than ever before. Says Computer Artist William Reeves of Lucasfilm, who created the image of windblown grass he calls Blowin' in the Wind: "I'm not going to claim it's just like...
...looks and acts human; his fingers and facial expressions are soft, lifelike and wonderfully appealing. In creating De Peltrie, the Montreal team may have achieved a breakthrough: a digitized character with whom a human audience can identify. --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York and Dick Thompson/San Francisco...
...ingredients in a drug attach themselves, like keys in locks, to target molecules in the body, computer models can help researchers see how a change in molecular structure will affect a drug's behavior. Says Robert Langridge, who heads the computer-graphics laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco: "I call it computer-assisted insight...
...Chew) lives in the Richmond section of San Francisco, but she left her heart in China. Proudly unassimilated, Mom replies to her English-speaking children in impeccable Cantonese. Nor will she surrender to Occidental displays of emotion. To give thanks or praise or a show of love to her No. 1 daughter Geraldine (Laureen Chew) would be to compromise her matriarchal authority. She will only goad Geraldine to marry that nice Chinese-American doctor from Los Angeles. Then an old woman can follow a fortune teller's prophecy and turn to the business of dying...