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Another benefit of having attended a hoop mecca is that the DeMatha Boys know what winning is all about. "At DeMatha," says Smith, "there's a winning foundation, a tradition...
...computer whiz kids are finally getting their due. In a new book called Hackers (Doubleday; $17.95), Writer Steven Levy argues that these "science-mad people" are the true heroes of the computer revolution. He traces the history of hackers from M.I.T.'s Tech Model Railroad Club, their first mecca, to Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club, an early microcomputer gathering spot, to a video-game factory in Coarsegold, Calif. Through it all he discerns a common thread: the unspoken assumption among crack computer programmers and engineers that they could straighten out the world by dint of their intelligence...
...heard that Boston's supposed to be the medical Mecca of the world". Martin S. Bander, deputy to the director of MGH and spokesman for many of the Harvard hospitals, said last week. "It's nice to see 250 experts confirm this belief...
...canyon some 45 miles south of Kabul. "Life was good," recalls Haji Jumah Gul. "We had wheat, corn, rice, melons, apples, cherries, pears and mulberries. Almost everyone had cattle and sheep." Many of the villagers were prosperous enough to be able to afford a pilgrimage each year to Mecca...
Parliamentary Leader Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had indicated earlier that he was giving serious consideration to an invitation from Saudi Arabia to go on hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. A Rafsanjani trip to Saudi Arabia would be an important symbolic step toward relieving tensions between the two nations, which were exacerbated when Saudi air force warplanes shot down an Iranian fighter over the gulf in June...