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...matchup made in hype-heaven. Burt Reynolds' team vs. the God squad. The pro-style strategy of Florida State vs. the grind-it-out ground game of Notre Dame. Seminole speed vs. Irish beef. Irresistible force meets immovable object. "This might be the biggest game ever in college football," F.S.U. defensive end Derrick Alexander declared at midweek, and few would disagree -- certainly not the fellow who claimed a ticket by piloting his '79 Ford LTD from Los Angeles to South Bend, Indiana, in 21 hours, nor the fan who traded his 1991 Honda for tickets on the 50-yard-line...
Unfortunately, the hype was mixed with a good deal of confusion. The scientists in question had not succeeded in mass-producing viable embryos from a single embryo's DNA, as the Times suggested. Their experiment, in fact, was remarkably simple. Using an abnormally fertilized egg which had begun the normal process of development by dividing into two cells, they simply separated the cells and allowed each to develop on its own. In effect, the scientists reproduced the process which, in the womb, leads to the development of identical twins...
...course, the contest's pre-game hype couldnot match up to what actually happened...
...Game itself is set to start at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the capacious Yale Bowl, located in the leafy suburb of Westwood. Despite the traditional hype, however, this year's contest features two hard-luck squads battling it out for bragging rights to second-to-last place in the Ivies...
Virtual-reality hype is gradually giving way to virtual-reality reality. "Finally," says Ben Delaney, publisher of CyberEdge Journal, "the technology has met up with the demand. I think we're going to see VR all over the place. It's a better mousetrap, and it's a better way to work with computers." John Latta, president of 4th Wave, a market research firm, predicts that the nonmilitary VR industry, already a $110 million business, will be nearly five times as large...