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...company, VisiCorp, has announced that it is developing a mouse system that will plug into an IBM PC and give it some of Lisa's capabilities at a lower price. Apple itself is working on a scaled-down version of Lisa called Mackintosh (a misspelling of the Mclntosh apple). Priced at about $2,000, it is expected to make its debut this summer. Other mouse-driven machines are sure to follow, but Jobs shrugs them off. "We want to drive this industry," he says. "We could have introduced Lisa a year ago, but we wanted to make it perfect...
Michael R. Mclntosh Sarasota...
...argument was not settled until a few years ago, when a physicist and amateur paleontologist at Connecticut's Wesleyan University, John Mclntosh, and the Pittsburgh museum's David Berman sorted through tons of bones, re-examined the original site descriptions and discovered the 1909 skull switch. As a result, a longer head was retrieved from the dusty storage bins and mounted atop the Carnegie's Brontosaurus. Casts were also shipped of to other institutions, which, like the Pea body, are gradually making the change...
...Eliot Corday, a past president of the college, was unequivocal. "Bypass surgery," he declared, "is the most important development of the decade in medicine." Not necessarily so, countered a number of cardiologists, notably those affiliated with Veterans Administration hospitals or other federal agencies. Dr. Henry D. Mclntosh, also a college past president, summarized their view in a report published in the journal Circulation: "Except for certain relatively small [groups] of patients, there is no convincing evidence that the procedure prevents or postpones premature death...
...orchards throughout New England, the Mclntosh, Red Delicious, Northern Spy and Cortland apples have been ripe for six weeks, ready to be trucked to markets round the country or sold to nearby roadside stands. Last week as the harvest drew to an end, growers were hard pressed to gather in their crop?worth more than $50 million to them?before the fruit started spoiling and dropping to the ground. The weather and the Federal Government had, in the Northeastern farmers' view, conspired to make this a doubly difficult year. A snowstorm last spring destroyed blossoms. Heavy rains in September made...