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...another harrowing test of their nerves. Today, they could be forgiven for taking a celebratory nip: In what might have been a rerun of last June's disastrous collision, the autopilot docking mechanism aboard a supply ship again failed -- but this time, Mir's commander managed to use the manual controls to safely dock the vessel. And inside the cargo vessel, for the cosmonaut who has everything, a new set of wrenches. Now they can fix that damn door...
That image haunted Gibson. He didn't know much about computers--he wrote his breakthrough novel, Neuromancer, on an ancient manual typewriter--but as near as he could tell, everybody who worked much with the machines eventually came to accept, almost as an article of faith, the reality of that imaginary realm. "They develop a belief that there's some kind of actual space behind the screen," he says. "Some place that you can't see but you know is there...
...ailment, whose effects range from soreness and discomfort during extensive manual activity to permanent musculoskeletal damage to the hands, is difficult to explain. Ostensible caused include typing too much in uncomfortable positions, especially without taking breaks. Because of the role of Keyboarding in RSI, computer-science students run the highest risk. Yet for some reason, the lack of ergonomic keyboard equipment does not seem like a satisfying explanation for what has escalated from an annoyance into a bona fide plague. Why have so many students been struck by RSI? After thinking about it for quite some time, I realized that...
...book The University: An Owner's Manual, Henry S. Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty from 1973 to 1984, calls Crimson reporting of the sixties and seventies more of an "exercise in advocacy journalism favoring the forces of revolution" than impartial journalism...
...really pushed ourselves in the past yearto be a content-provider," says Kramer.Below right, ADAM S. HICKEY '99 lays outstories onto a page digitally. Pages were designedusing manual "paste-ups" as recently...