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...Chen venture aims to push into supercomputing's furthest frontier, a technology called parallel processing. Machines using that technique divide complex problems into pieces, which are then handled by scores or even hundreds of processors working simultaneously. The Reagan Administration is reportedly planning to endorse and underwrite research in the field, since the technology is crucial not only for such applications as weather forecasting and wind-tunnel testing but also for the President's Strategic Defense Initiative...
...thought I was furthest from the award, which is probably why I got it," Burkley said...
...Administration insists Ortega must negotiate not with Washington but with the contras. Ortega just as adamantly refuses to meet with the contras' political leaders; the furthest he will go at the moment is to offer to discuss cease-fire terms and amnesty with contra military commanders in the field...
Protecting those who have not yet become infected has an equally high priority, and research on vaccines for AIDS is proceeding at an unprecedented pace. Of the many groups at work on a vaccine, Genentech, of South San Francisco, Calif., appears to be one of the furthest along and may begin tests of a prototype vaccine on humans as early as this year. But vaccinemakers face several daunting obstacles. Perhaps the most formidable is the fact that the virus mutates and changes its outer coat so rapidly that no single vaccine is likely to be effective against all strains. Researchers...
...Beyond Therapy. Together they wrote and performed Das Lusitania Songspiel, a deliciously rancid Brecht-meets-Broadway parody, and Naked Lunch, a fake interview with Voracious Starlet Sigourney Weaver that, in expanded form, may soon be a major motion picture. "She is a very strong collaborator," says Durang. "The furthest-out ideas come from Sigourney. I, however, type faster." Of their paldom, Weaver says, "We have so much fun ( together. Our friendship is in a class all by itself. It's the icing on the cake of life...