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Twenty years later, it's deja vu all over again. Just like before, students have thus far been kept out of the loop. The search committee initially said that it would include students from the beginning of the process; that statement was revealed to be a lie last week, when The Crimson reported that the committee had already winnowed the field to a medium list--before consulting students even once. So much for consensus...
...queues of demoralized shoppers took to the streets last week -- from Ukrainian-independen ce campaigners in Kiev to a procession behind a Russian Orthodox priest blessing Moscow's new commodities exchange, to U.S. film star and fitness diva Jane Fonda leading a troop of Soviet women on an athletic loop around the Kremlin. Yet as loudspeakers blared "Hoorah, hoorah!" for Fonda outside the old czarist citadel, inside no outright cheers greeted Gorbachev's shape-up course. Legislators adopted the program by a vote of 333 to 12 (with 34 abstentions) but remained unsure as to exactly what the plan would...
...created true artificial life -- yet. But some have come intriguingly close. Christopher Langton, a researcher at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory, gets credit for coining the term artificial life. $ He was fiddling in the mid-'80s with programs known as cellular automata when he stumbled on a loop-shaped figure that could spontaneously reproduce itself. "That was a watershed," he says. "If you could capture self- reproduction, what else could...
...seems that as the stakes increase, the extent of Harvard oversight dwindles. Sperling and Eisenson report directly to the Corporation--bypassing all established safeguards for ethical investment. It's a very small loop that doesn't include students and whose decisions are not reported regularly...
...three events include the criterion, which is 15 laps for the women and 25 laps for the men's A squad around a one-mile loop with embankments. The second event is a team time trial consisting of the best times over a 15-mile flat course. And the third event is a 36-mile individual road race for the women and a 72-mile road race for the men's A squad...