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Scientists are already queuing up with their pet projects. University of Pennsylvania Economist Lawrence Klein wants supercomputer time to build a comprehensive model of the world economy. At the University of Illinois, Meteorologist Robert Wilhelmson hopes to simulate the birth of a tornado. Hidenori Murakami, a structural engineer at UCSD, aims to predict the effects of earthquakes on skyscrapers, bridges and other structures. And at Cornell, researchers working under Wilson want to use their new machine to design a supercomputer a thousand times more powerful than the one they are about to receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Matriculating At Supercomputer U | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Hideki Tojo was born in Iwate Prefecture 56 years ago, the son of Lieut. General Hidenori Tojo,* a leading strategist of the Russo-Japanese War. In 1905, when that war ended, Tojo the Younger was graduated from Tokyo's Imperial Military Academy. For 29 years his military career was unremarkable, but in 1934 Major General Tojo, as Chief of the Military Inquiry Department, achieved his first international press by committing a colossal gaff. He declared with strange clairvoyance: "The United States, Russia and China, knowing that Japan is likely to be confronted with various international difficulties in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Safety Razor | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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