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Held in front of an overflow crowd of about 500 people in Building 26 at MIT, the fourth annual RoboPuck tournament was revolutionary--it was the first time that teams were competing without being tethered to computers. The controlling microprocessor chips were located on the robots, which were constructed out of Lego kits, gears, motors and sensors...
Residents of the drizzly Pacific Northwest are accustomed to wet weather, but the floods that struck western Oregon and Washington last week were something else. In one 24-hour period, 6 in. of rain fell in Oregon and 4.5 in. in Washington, causing rivers to overflow their banks, driving thousands from their homes and closing highway I-5 for three days. At least three people were killed...
...recalls a phone conversation with King just before King came out publicly against the Viet Nam War. Or Ron Scott, whose apartment was raided by National Guardsmen during the Detroit riots, explaining, "Inside of most black people there was a time bomb . . . a pot that was about to overflow." If the historian's job is to bring some sort of order and sense to events that once seemed chaotic and frightening, then Eyes II deserves top prize...
According to police records, the room locks in Jordan's K-entry, which is used for overflow housing from North House, were "punched out" of the doors. Three of the five residents whose rooms were entered reported missing property, including two word processors and some computer hardware...
Similarly, at a meeting of the opposition group New Forum in Potsdam's Erloser Church, an overflow crowd of 5,000 booed, whistled and stamped their feet when party theoretician Otto Reinhold, until recently one of the East German guardians of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, proclaimed his conversion to reform by saying that the constitutionally enshrined leading role of the Socialist Unity Party (S.E.D.) was a thing of the past. From the audience a voice shouted, "Wendehals!" (turncoat), unleashing an uproar in the audience...