Word: high-tech
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...Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium (1982) exemplifies the impeccable craft of his best work since then. Like much Japanese architecture of the past 25 years, it has a sci-fi quality: one section of the building resembles some enormous otherworldly blimp, the other calls to mind a high-tech samurai helmet. But unlike the slicker gimmicky UFO architecture (Kurokawa's earlier work, for instance), Maki's gym is restrained and sober, a mature fantasy. The flawless, parabolic stainless-steel skin is 1.6 acres in size but just about one-sixtieth of an inch thick...
...flown to Seoul, about four hours away. After telephone discussions with Richer, Moyer and TIME Photographer Ed Kim selected the photos that most dramatically illustrated what was happening in the Philippine capital. Then in a photo lab in downtown Seoul, Moyer, Kim and a team of technicians began the high-tech wizardry of transmitting the color photos to New York City...
...high-tech razzle-dazzle masks plenty of serious business. Investigators are experimenting with new forms of teleconferencing. One idea involved projecting video images of individuals onto plaster casts of their faces. The resulting "talking heads" were so lifelike that people using the system felt they were "meeting" with colleagues who were actually in another city. A major effort is also being made to enhance computer animation. Assistant Professor David Zeltzer, building on research he started at Ohio State, is developing new ways of simulating human figures and movement. One application would allow playwrights to see just how scenes would look...
...report recommending improved supervision of residents and strict limits on how many hours they can work at a stretch. Residents, urged the committee, should work no more than 16 consecutive hours in ordinary, inpatient care, and no more than twelve hours in the emergency room. In today's high-tech environment, said Axelrod, "the opportunity to do good as well as to do harm is increasing. I don't know that someone who is semisomnolent can make the judgments required...
...designed to operate far more covertly than older elite paramilitary units, such as the Army's Rangers and the Navy's Seals. They have been given exotic code names, such as Yellow Fruit, Task Force 160 and Seaspray. New types of equipment have been developed for them, including small, high-tech helicopters and one-man satellite- & communications radios and dishes. In addition, a far-ranging intelligence organization known as Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) gave the Army for the first time the ability to conduct full-fledged espionage using field agents. And all was done in such deep secrecy that...