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Cybercafes (which typically charge $5 to $10 an hour to log on, though many provide discounted or free access with the purchase of food and drink) offer other high-tech icebreakers as well, such as CD-ROMs and new videogames. In Los Angeles, Cyber Java draws crowds with its videophone facilities. Cyber Cafe offers classes in Net navigation and Web-page authoring. At Cybersmith in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the country's grandest computer playland cum restaurant, regulars can congregate around a virtual-reality flight simulator ready for testing...
Captain Samuel Barrett Edes met his "mermaid" in Java or Batavia. Thoroughly convinced that it was a veritable mermaid, Captain Edes stole $6,000 of his ship's money, purchased the creature and left for London, where he planned to exhibit his acquisition for pecuniary returns. His ploy failed and he returned to Boston to die, with no possessions save his mermaid, which he believed in until the end. His son sold the creature to Moses Kimball, who exhibited it to P.T. Barnum...
...true spirit of the Internet, Sun plans on publically distributing the HotJava Web browser (along with complete documentation for the object-oriented Java language used to develop HotJava Web pages...
...response to your report "How Man Began" ((SCIENCE, March 14)), I would note that the nearly 2 million-year age, reported as the key breakthrough in dating hominids in Java, used to be found in textbooks of the 1970s and early '80s. But later years of investigation by teams from Japan, the Netherlands and Indonesia reset the age of these hominids to little more than 1 million years. A true revolution in our thinking about a complex of multiple human lineages, each with a proper extinction, stays intact with either the older- or younger-date theory. Geographic expansion...
...dating technique to bits of volcanic pumice from the fossil-bearing sediments at Mojokerto. Curtis' conclusion: the Mojokerto child was not a million years old but closer to 2 million. Nobody took much notice, however, because the technique is prone to errors in the kind of pumice found in Java. Curtis' dates would remain uncertain for more than two decades, until he and Swisher could re-evaluate the pumice with a new, far more accurate method...