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When participants were not talking about the latest, lightest and most powerful machine, they discussed two huge competitors: IBM and the Japanese. IBM introduced its first personal computer less than two years ago, but it now appears that it may soon dominate the market. The company already commands about 25% of sales, and other makers are tailoring their new products to work like IBM's. On the subject of the Japanese, most computer company officials remain quietly confident that they can match the challenge...
Both inside and outside the boathouse, Harvard's captain acts in the interests of his performance, but then no one else on the team has had to overcome Rogers's disadvantages. The lightest oarsman in the boat and the shortest by several inches, the Eliot House resident makes up in technique and hard work what he lacks in size. Rogers is generally acknowledged to have the smoothest blades man ship of the team, an oarsman devoted to his craft...
...device weighing 12.8 grams won the lightest award...
Richards' life after the operation, arguably the talk's most interesting segment, gets the lightest treatment. A relatively successful female tennis pro after facing opposition from authorities, she now coaches first-ranked Martina Navratilova and has resumed practicing opthamology. She says her father has accepted the switch, and her son, after about of psychotherapy, has adjusted to "his daddy becoming a lady...
...find themselves facing an information gap. Though some savor getting to know a new area through its local newspapers, others dislike the parochialism of too many home-town stories. The nationally distributed alternatives, the Wall Street Journal and the less universally available New York Times, are not exactly the lightest of reads. Starting this week in Washington, D.C., however, and perhaps eventually throughout America, there will be another choice: USA Today, a streamlined, eye-catching and affordable (25?) Monday-to-Friday daily paper from the nation's biggest newspaper chain, the Gannett Co. USA Today's launch will...