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...another piece of stereo equipment. We've been LPed, 8-tracked, cassetted, CDed, and DATed, and now comes the Mini Disc, or MD, unveiled last week by Sony, which expects it to surface in stores by late...
Looking like a compact disc after a month on Slim-fast, the 2 1/2-in. MD is small enough to be played on a machine the size of a cigarette pack. But it holds as much music as its full-size cousin, and unlike the traditional CD (if something a decade old can be called traditional), the MD records as well as plays back. True, it does not offer the compact disc's perfection of fidelity, but the digital MD easily outperforms analog tape cassettes. And unlike portable CD units, the MD player doesn't skip when jolted...
...slugfest became public after Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., announced in 1984 that they had isolated the AIDS virus. But it turned out to be virtually identical to one that had already been cultured in the lab of Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. That was surprising, since strains of the AIDS virus from different people have noticeably different genetic structures...
...heavyweights placed second during Saturday's rowing of the 56th annual Adams Cup on the Severns River in Annapolis, MD. Penn, who the Crimson had defeated just three weeks earlier, took the cup for the second consecutive year with a time of 5:43. Harvard completed the 2000-meter course in 5:44 while host Navy was third...
From Philadelphia, the Crimson traveled to Annapolis, MD to take on the Middies of Navy. Rain on Sunday, however, postponed the games until Monday...