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...have all the answers," he says. "But that is what SDI is all about. It is a research program." One way to test the system thoroughly, he says, may be through computer simulations of a full-scale nuclear war--a goal he thinks can eventually be achieved. Brockway Mac-Millan, a retired vice president at Bell Laboratories who directed the development of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile software system in the early 1970s, agrees. "Given the proper tools and enough time," he says, "I think the software problems can be solved." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
...number of Harvard motorcycle men(or women, although I was not referred to any) remains somewhat of a mystery. Most students say there are at least a few riders in each house. Luis Millan, a senior in Currier house who currently rides a lime green, white and blue Ninja 2x6 Kawasaki, has owned a motorcycle at Harvard for three years. Millan suspects that there are more bikes located in the Quad than anywhere else on campus...
...bikers agree that riding through Cambridge is difficult and dangerous. Maniatis, owner of a Yamaha Fazer, claims to have "come near death quite a few times" and recently almost ran in to a bus. Millan once fell off his bike when he hit a patch of send in the middle of a sharp turn. Still, he was able to get back on the bike and drive himself to the hospital. With the agressive Cambridge driving style, Beukema worries about the apparent rise in numbers of Harvard motorcycle riders. "I worry for other people driving around here...
These Harvard riders apparently get a lot of attention while on their bikes from fellow students, women in particular. "A lot of girls want rides," Millan says, "but I have a girlfriend." Reactions to a first ride on a motorcycle very drastically according to Beukema. "Half love it and half give you a speech on how dangerous bikes...
...motorcycle craze catching on with the greater Harvard community? Most of the bikes I spoke with think this is the case. "I've seen a lot more people with motorcycles," Millan says. Regardless, the Winthrop gang has big plans for the future. Maniatis announces confidently that as a rooming group. "We plan to have a fifteen bike collection." McPartland agrees, "We are all going to live next door to each other and swap bikes...