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U.S. companies currently account for only 10% of the world's production of the most advanced DRAM chip, the one megabit, which has enough memory to contain the equivalent of 100 pages of double-spaced text. The new venture, called U.S. Memories, plans to manufacture the next generation: the four...
On the earth, the flare's effects were equally disruptive. Shortwave transmissions were interrupted, some for as long as 24 hours, and satellite communication and a Coast Guard loran navigation system were temporarily overwhelmed. Powerful transient magnetic fields, generated in the upper atmosphere by the flare, induced electrical currents in...
The 32-year-old auteur (She's Gotta Have It, School Daze) must be enjoying his prominence as the angry young man of the don't-worry, be-happy '80s. Of all the blacks who have strutted through the studio door that Eddie Murphy kicked down, Lee is the one...
$ They are, in their own way, as much a part of TV history as Lucy, Uncle Miltie and the Great One. Their names were Pinky, Blinky, Inky and Clyde, but most people knew them simply as the squat, ghostlike monsters who scurried around a maze trying to gobble you up...
What sustains Wilentz's own cautious hope for Haiti is the energy of its people, who have somehow learned the art of surviving. Haiti, she writes, "made me think of the laughter of slaves" -- but slaves, she all but adds, who will someday find their way to freedom.