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...Silly Putty unit 27. Cry out loud 28. House Dems walked out over the __ prescription-drug issue 30. Inkster, who repeated as LPGA champion 33. Oysters' homes 37. Cinders of old comics 39. Mork's sign-off, when doubled 41. James __ Garfield 43. Slaughter in baseball 45. __ White (IBM's new supercomputer) 46. Kind of graft 47. Kit Carson's home 48. __-Locka, Fla. 49. Masters and Johnson subject 51. Medical specialty (abbr.) 52. Royal-jelly maker...
Finally, those wild and crazy scientists at IBM have created the Microdrive ($499, available this fall), a 1-GB hard drive squeezed down to the size of a quarter. It weighs less than an ounce--you could almost mistake it for an after-dinner mint. Big whoop, you say? Slot one of these babies into an MP3 player, and you've got storage space for about 20 hours' worth of music. The Backstreet Boys never sounded so good...
Celebrities and sports stars, from Martha Stewart to Joe Montana, are jumping on the VC bandwagon. In the past several months, corporate heavyweights IBM, News Corp., Time Warner (parent of TIME) and Arthur Andersen, to name a few, have launched their own funds. Even the CIA has set up a venture arm, In-Q-Tel. And later this year, Silicon Valley start-up MeVC, along with VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will roll out a publicly traded venture fund that lets individuals with a net worth of at least $150,000 plunk down a minimum of $5,000 to play...
Especially if you're a Devil. The team is called "the firm" because the owner, Lou Lamoriello, runs it like IBM in 1955. Gomez's teammates, only two of whom are single, are more serious than he. Once, in his mom's office--she counsels women on infant nutrition--he autographed a picture with "Breast feeding got me here, Scott Gomez...
...report, the Student Council condemned Yale's "IBM system" of random housing assignments as inimical to true community. Ironically, it didn't take the administration's IBM system to challenge communal college life. The House system took its strongest blow from students themselves, pushing for diverse interests and bored with the prospects of beer parties, holiday plays and football matches. Lowell's House system may well have been meant for another age, one in which students enjoyed the same basic pastimes and believed the same basic ideas...