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...Gore knew he was coming off a bad week, so he wasted little time trying to charm the 165 United Auto Workers union leaders he met last Monday in a smoke-choked Des Moines, Iowa, hotel conference room. "I know what you can do. You know why I'm here," he said. "We need to talk." But as he spoke, an audience that started out polite but skeptical turned hostile. Gore twice deflected questions about whether the global-warming treaty he championed would send jobs overseas and instead served up encomiums about saving the planet. Then Mike Edwards, the assembly...
Meanwhile, Bradley has a new bounce in his step. Where Iowa Democrats grumble that they have seen little of Gore, Bradley is making the union-hall rounds. Former Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson, who played with Bradley on the New York Knicks, will lend an assist, even giving pep talks to campaign workers. His first-quarter fund raising is likely to approach $4 million, proving he can play this game. A new TIME/CNN poll has Bradley cutting the gap 14 points between Gore and him, to 49% to 29%, in three weeks, raising a question: Are Gore's numbers down...
...overused word for that something is vision, and you can hear the Vice President struggling to lay out his in the stump speech he has been test-driving recently in Iowa and New Hampshire. For better or worse, Gore himself came up with his new slogan, "Stand with me," a heavy-handed reminder of Gore's fidelity to the President through the rough sledding of the past year. But the issue now is not Gore's loyalty but his identity, so he rarely mentions Clinton directly. He is also branching out, morphing his well-known stands on the environment...
...years, ENIAC's principal creators, the late John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, held the unchallenged title of inventors of the modern computer--until an obscure physicist named John Atanasoff came forth to dispute their claims. In the late 1930s, while teaching at Iowa State College, he and a graduate student named Clifford Bell began building a device that would allow them to solve large linear algebraic equations. Their machine, later called ABC (for Atanasoff Berry Computer), incorporated a number of novel features, including the separation of data processing from memory, and relied on binary numbers instead of ENIAC...
...Robert Noyce knew the new gadget meant the end of balky, bulky vacuum tubes. But he also realized you couldn't do much with transistors until you could link them together, like fibers in an Oriental rug. To everyone's astonishment, the gifted young man from Grinnell, Iowa--a minister's son--achieved that goal in a decade. His integrated circuit, or microchip, not only helped rename an orchard-filled California valley but also led to a seemingly endless harvest of silicon devices, from PCs to coffeemakers...