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...have time to participate in those activities offered. The question of how the admissions office percieves those activities participated in by Third World students is also important. Is the conga player seen as important as the violin players? He should--be after all, the conga is as important an instrument in Third World culture as the violin is in white society--but the admissions office does not seem to agree...
...industry's prodigious ability to produce the chips is also its Achilles' heel; the danger that chip makers could eventually produce far more and far more powerful chips than the market can absorb is real. By 1985, according to C. Lester Hogan, vice chairman of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., it will be feasible to build a pocket calculator "that will be more powerful than, and almost as fast as," the $9 million Cray-1, built by Cray Research Inc. in Chippewa Falls, Wis., and recognized as the mightiest computer in the world...
...year later, eight of Shockley's ablest collaborators quit, and with backing from Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. founded Fairchild Semiconductor. The new firm prospered and eventually began to spawn its own host of upstart competitors as its technicians, one after another, decided to go into business for themselves...
...think cocaine is a harmless substance," Dr. Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of Psychiatry and coordinator of the association workshop, said yesterday, but added that criminal law is a "clumsy instrument" for controlling the use and abuse of the drug...
There are those who have found any art of such absolute reduction too self-restricting, something abstracted beyond either beauty or meaning. Yet unlike painting or poetry or music, dance can never really be "abstract," because the shape of both instrument and perfected form is the familiarity of the human body. The essence of Cunningham's art is in the end not reduction, but the affirmation of the body in the simplicity of its own life. Perhaps most of all, his is an art of celebration