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Kosslyn and Stellar offer thedepartment's more than 200 undergraduateconcentrators classes which explore the questionof whether the brain is a computer, and theregulation of internal environment, hormones andperceptual motor skills...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: PSR Simplifies Moniker, Forsakes SR to Become P | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

Astronaut Dan Brandenstein reported that a nozzle on a motor came within a fifth of an inch of burning through. Had it burned through, he said, the result would have been "catastrophic," with the craft going into a pinwheeling motion. He believed the five astronauts on board would have been killed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rocket Booster Called Key to Explosion | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...these people aren't bewildered freshmen, they're senior level executives. Instead of arriving at Harvard after several years at Andover or Philips-Exeter, they hail from Ford Motor Company, IBM, and General Motors...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: Back to School for Money Moguls | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

...Year's resolution, Massachusetts this month became the nation's 14th state to institute a law requiring all occupants of a motor vehicle to wear a seat belt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Law: $15 Fine for Not Buckling Up | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

...attention to the racket of pistons firing individually, a sound gone out of modernity. Nowadays jets scream, and cars, even motorcycles, hum. A spectator, Cal Buchanan from Orlando, a "grease monkey from way back yonder," ventured that "I came along when you could hear what was wrong with a motor 90% of the time. Good ears and 50 cents'll get you a cup of coffee these days, if you shop around." As a gorgeous P-38 rattled down the field, Buchanan called its tubercular chorus "music" and gave thanks aloud for "people with the kind of money to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

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