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...speed limits and traffic circles would discourage cars from using designated "bicycle priority streets" that run parallel to major traffic arteries such as Mass...
Under the plan, Harvard St., which runs parallel to Broadway and Mass Ave., would be turned into such a street...
When Danny Hillis built his parallel computer six years ago, the industry largely dismissed the machine as too radical. While it was able to run rings around the most powerful supercomputers by processing thousands of instructions simultaneously rather than one at a time, Hillis' machine required customized software. But with conventional supercomputers aging and unable to meet future demands, mainstream computer makers are starting to warm up to parallel computing. In perhaps the biggest endorsement yet, IBM last week formed a joint venture with Hillis' company, Thinking Machines, to incorporate parallel technology into Big Blue's line of large computers...
Then came Freshman Week. It rained every day. I thought of King Lear, the way the rain is supposed to parallel the inner turmoil of the characters, and I fancied myself the protagonist in my own tragedy...
...idea of truth. Cold fusion in a teacup? Or, as biologists (then at M.I.T.) David Baltimore and Thereza Imanishi-Kari claimed in a controversial 1986 article that the National Institutes of Health has now judged to be fraudulent, genes from one mouse mysteriously "imitating" those from another? Sure, and parallel lines might as well meet somewhere or apples leap back up onto trees...