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Fifty years ago this week--shortly after lunch on Dec. 23, 1947--the Digital Revolution was born. It happened on a drizzly Tuesday in New Jersey, when two Bell Labs scientists demonstrated a tiny contraption they had concocted from some strips of gold foil, a chip of semiconducting material and a bent paper clip. As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it and switch...
...added to the resistance to emotional responses. This was because, first, few things shock anybody anymore, and second, because people feel assured that all the freakishness of life will be normalized and neutralized on television. The too frequent child murders of the year, such as the killings in New Jersey (one by another child), the killings and shootings of and by schoolchildren in Mississippi and Kentucky, and the stories of newborns left in toilets or in Dumpsters ought to have aroused great public feelings of pity or rage. But they were defused at the outset by the fact that...
...October, for national Make a Difference Day, Adam wrote to 374 schools in a three-county area asking them to participate in a concerted food drive for the Food Bank of South Jersey, which provides 16,000 meals a month for the hungry. Thanks to MAGIC, the Food Bank has collected more than 4,000 lbs. of food. After previous drives at Moorestown High, "we often didn't know what to do with the food," says school principal Lynn Schilling. "Adam jumped in right away and gave us a mission." --Reported by Emily Mitchell/Moorestown...
...Jersey at Miami...
...harrowing. Jamie Nabozny, who in the early '90s attended high school in Ashland, Wis., says he was kicked in the stomach so many times he required surgery. A group of boys also urinated on him. Robert McDonald, 20, a former student at Jefferson Township High School in southern New Jersey, claims he was spat upon while he rode the bus and beaten up after track practice...