Word: linings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Good fences make good neighbors," says a line by Robert Frost. At Long Beach's Lindbergh Junior High School, the idea was to keep out some very bad neighbors. For years, outdoor gym classes have been endangered by bullets, bottles and even an arrow from the neighboring Carmelitos housing project. One student was shot while playing basketball in the Lindbergh school yard two years ago. A year later, gym teacher Joan Reedy had to hustle her class into the building when a bullet whizzed past...
...bright spot for the U.S. is that several companies, large and small, hope to enter the field. Among the contenders is IBM, which in late 1987 formed a venture with former Cray designer Steve Chen to develop a line of advanced supercomputers. Allan Weis, a vice president in IBM's Data Systems division, asserts, "We're very serious about the supercomputer market. The Japanese are formidable competitors, but IBM and Cray are very formidable too." They had better be, or the supercomputer could go the way of the videocassette recorder...
...PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving (Morrow; $19.95). In this inventive, indignant novel, a boisterous cast and a spirited story line propel a sawed- off Christly caricature through two decades of U.S. foreign-policy debacles...
...platinum ZIP codes of Holmby Hills, Bel Air and Beverly Hills, the noise of wretched excess is everywhere. "Teardowns" are transforming the shape of some of the most voluptuous real estate in the U.S. Down tree-lined boulevards, the murmur of nannies cooing into baby carriages and gardeners snipping the gardenias is drowned out by earthmoving, sawing, hammering, and the cursing of drivers trying to park beside a line of lunch wagons, cement mixers and Porta Pottis. To date, hundreds of older homes in the area have been destroyed for the simple reason that the original "dungalows" were worth...
...dramatic advance in computer technology. Over the years, computer scientists have devised an impressive array of mathematical techniques, or algorithms, for rendering 3-D images on a 2-D computer screen. Traditionally, these algorithms -- for drawing things in perspective, for example, removing surfaces hidden from the viewer's line of sight or painting finished objects with texture and shade -- have been encoded in programs and stored in computers as software. As such, they used up massive quantities of computer time. To draw a simple object ten times a second, the minimum needed to create the illusion of motion, took...