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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is an understatement," says a top G.O.P. official on Capitol Hill. "This is a party that likes to think of itself as the mirror image of those antiwar protesters who undermined those American boys in Vietnam. But because the situation is so volatile and the President hasn't laid out an endgame, it's hard to react...
...Crimson was not done, however. Watanabe led off the fourth with a double, and LaSovage followed with a walk. Amberg then laid down a bunt that Holy Cross pitcher Caitlyn McCarthy fielded. McCarthy threw to third, but the speedy Watanabe beat the throw and the bags were juiced for Abeles...
Virtually all computers today, from $10 million supercomputers to the tiny chips that power cell phones and Furbies, have one thing in common: they are all "Von Neumann machines," variations on the basic computer architecture that John von Neumann, building on the work of Alan Turing, laid out in the 1940s. Men have become famous for less. But in the lifetime of this Hungarian-born mathematician who had his hand in everything from quantum physics to U.S. policy during the cold war, the Von Neumann machine was almost the least of his accomplishments...
...scientists found Seed's sound bites credible, yet his proclamations laid out a soul-shivering truth. Medicine has a strong impetus (if not temptation) to use this technology--for basic research, for new therapies, to provide solutions to infertility or to "replace" a dying loved one. But medicine is also bound by the traditional precept to do no harm, and so it takes on added challenges--such as whether clones will die young because of their older DNA or whether they will suffer the environmental mutations picked up during the life of their adult parent...
...increasingly wired country. But a growing number of small towns have decided to take matters into their own hands. Some are forming cooperatives to string their own wire. Others are pulling strings. In Lusk, Wyo., a cajoling and far-sighted mayor was able to get fiber-optic cable laid into his town of 1,600 and give its two schools access to a T1 line (and Lusk a starring role in Microsoft's ads on TV). Town leaders see it as a matter of survival. "We want our kids to come back here," says Twila Barnette, who manages the county...