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Does the Holocaust museum belong? Well, it does. Those who object to it are just as wrong as the other people who (for very different reasons) campaigned against the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, calling it a depressive exercise, an insult to the American military and a "black gash of shame." The Vietnam wall transcended the criticisms and became an American shrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never Forget | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Source code is the program as written in a computer language, usually C or Pascal. When you buy Microsoft Windows, you receive "object code" instead of source code. Computers understand object code, but the language is totally unreadable to humans. Source code can be translated into object code, but object code cannot be translated into source code...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: Set Your Software Free | 4/20/1993 | See Source »

...petition stops short of calling for the retraction of Powell's invitation, but "object[s] to the choice" in light of his defense of the military's ban on homosexuals...

Author: By Wendy M. Seltzer, | Title: Students Petition On Powell | 4/20/1993 | See Source »

...object to Powell's coming to Harvard," Outcalt said. "We object to him receiving an honorary degree and to his having the authority of the Commencement stage...

Author: By Wendy M. Seltzer, | Title: Students Petition On Powell | 4/20/1993 | See Source »

...fiery, Jupiter-bright object that flashed across moonlit skies from Florida to New York early last Thursday morning was neither star nor planet nor UFO. It was the space shuttle Discovery putting on a spectacular light show on its way into orbit for eight days of atmospheric research. The successful -- at last! -- launch was a big relief for NASA. Two days earlier, Discovery's countdown was halted 11 seconds before lift-off because of a faulty computer circuit. Two weeks before that miscue, a mission by sister shuttle Columbia was scrubbed just three seconds before launch, after a valve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA's Plea: Help! | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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