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...high-tech hocus-pocus that will escalate the arms race. Some scientists suggest that because the protest has been centered at elite universities, SDI research is being done at less prestigious places. Huffs Princeton's Nobel Physicist Philip Anderson: "People who are hungry and need funding are going to lap up the money. They're out there, people from East Podunk Univerity, while the first-raters are signing the pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Star Wars P.R. War | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Buckley provided evidence of that earlier this year while vacationing aboard a yacht off the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. With the help of an Epson PX-8 lap-size machine, he fired off a 7,500-word draft of a children's book in two hours, a feat that can be compared with writing a college term paper during lunch break and getting it published. The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey (Workman, $10.95) is a morality tale for children from eight to 13, in which a demonical IBM 4341 mainframe teaches a New England prep-school student that computing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Convert to the Write Stuff | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...That is what you call bait," says Spotter with a laugh, looking down the sights of the rifle. He whistles a warning to his homeboys on the street. A black-and-white comes into view, doing a slow lap around four or five blocks, up Pico, across Mariposa, down and back around. Then it leaves. The Playboys laugh at the departing cops. Two years ago, CRASH teams were all over them, jumping out of their patrol cars to search them for weapons and drugs, getting them to pull up their shirts to show their tattoos, pumping them for information about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A. Gangs Are Back | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

With the title secured, all Harvard had to do was come home for one last hurrah—the team’s fourth consecutive win over Yale and a victory lap with the Ivy championship trophy. With the 10 wins, the 2004 Crimson took its place as the seventh undefeated and untied squad in Harvard history—and also finished the year as the only undefeated team in Division...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TEAM OF THE YEAR: Football | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

Cowboy Troy's debut album, Loco Motive, was just released on the Muzik Mafia's Warner Bros. imprint, Raybaw (red and yellow, black and white) Records. Says Troy: "I'm rapping over pedal-steel guitar, lap steel, Dobro, fiddle and other country instruments. In the Muzik Mafia we call it hick-hop, and we think its time has come. Country is ready to expand its boundaries." There are signs he may be right. Nelly and Tim McGraw recently had a hit with the style-mixing duet Over and Over, Jack White of the White Stripes produced a Grammy-winning album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Troy | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

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