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...brain will not undergo much in the way of biological evolution, humans, assisted by ever more powerful computers, will become capable of far greater intellectual feats. "We won't recognize any difference in brains themselves," emphasizes Maxwell Cowan, chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. "But we will recognize enormous differences in what brains know and understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Frontier Within | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...number of local stations around the country are claiming that many Saturday-morning cartoon and kiddy shows, including The Jetsons, G.I. Joe, Super Mario Brothers and Leave It to Beaver, are "educational" in nature. In a report prepared by the Center for Media Education in Takoma Park, Maryland, consumer groups charge that these stations are skirting the law's intent to upgrade children's TV programming by lumping all programs into vague categories such as "programs specifically designed for children." As it is, says the report, 60% of the scarce news shows for children that do appear are relegated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School Of Hard Knocks | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...comfort her daughter and ease the separation. When the day arrived, Basu secured her daughter in the car seat, climbed behind the wheel of her pale gold BMW and drove off, edging to a halt at a nearby stop sign. At that moment, the peaceful town of Savage, Maryland, lost the irony of its name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Savage Story | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...Three-quarters of a mile away, Marianne Pfeiffer, the principal at Forest Ridge Elementary School, was waiting to help tardy students cross the street. She stared in horror as the BMW raced through the school crossing, Basu's battered body dangool; the mere mention of Maryland's death penalty by a police spokesman brought tumultuous applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Savage Story | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...TECH free ride USC school of film and cinema NOTRE DAME full 4-year scholarship RUTGERS better aid package BROWN (2) medical program; better aid package TEXAS A&M better aid package UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA free ride COLUMBIA better aid package FLORIDA A&M historically Black college UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND better aid package PRINCETON (2) better aid package; reason not specified VANDERBILT better aid package WELLESLEY location WILLIAMS no reason specified

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Setback for Diversity? | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

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