Word: networks
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ITHACA, N.Y.--A rogue computer program created by a former Harvard undergraduate that crippled a nation-wide computer network last fall was neither the creation of a genius nor the act of a criminal, a Cornell University commission has concluded...
...flight's highlight was the deployment of the $100 million Tracking and Data-Relay Satellite, which completes an orbiting communications network that will let the space agency reduce its reliance on an expensive series of ground stations. Much more was riding on Discovery, though, than a single satellite. Without a successful launch, NASA could not hope to stick to its ambitious schedule of seven shuttle flights this year. And those flights are vital to a whole series of important scientific missions, including sending a probe to Jupiter and placing a powerful telescope in orbit. Those launches, plus several other missions...
Though it is too early to tell if the network has produced an Edsel, the bodywork so far looks good. Generations' actors are largely veterans. Taurean Blacque (Hill Street Blues) plays family patriarch Henry Marshall, owner of a chain of five Chicago ice-cream parlors. Lynn Hamilton (The Waltons) is Henry's mother-in-law, Vivian, who years earlier was a servant in the Whitmore mansion. Her former mistress, Pat Crowley (Dynasty), is the lawyer Rebecca < Whitmore, Marshall's attorney and a troubled divorcee. These three, along with members of both families, knot the skein of story lines in which...
...that never made it out of workshop readings and a filmscript for Steven Spielberg that was shelved. Then, as now, she was living in a Greenwich Village apartment, with no formal attachments aside from a cat named Ginger. Relentlessly social, Wasserstein has built a life revolving around an intricate network of friendships, many with other playwrights. But writing Heidi represented, in part, an acknowledgment that Wasserstein, like her heroine, is a woman alone. As Andre Bishop, the artistic director of Playwrights Horizon, puts it, "Wendy is now coming into her own as a writer and a person, and those...
WGBH, Boston's public television network, broadcast Sesame Street's 20th anniversary special as part of its pledge weekend programming. By the time the final credits rolled up the screen, this Sesame Streeter wished he had taped the show. He wanted to see it again and again and again. The rediscovery was complete. This show...