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Responding to Schlesinger and Bundy, Richard G. Darman '64, deputy secretary of the treasury, drew a parallel between JFK and Reagan. The two had appealing physical qualities and strong leadership skills, he said...
...specified. One frame of 35-mm film can require more than 6 million pixels; a 60-second sequence can cost $300,000 and take months to complete. To speed up the process, Catmull and Smith built a special-purpose machine -- the Pixar -- that divides the computational task among four parallel processors: three to control the red, blue or green washed onto each pixel; one to control the pixel's transparency...
Most scientists agree that the small-brained australopithecines were the first manlike creatures to walk upright, 3.5 million or more years ago, and that their evolution ran parallel to that of humanity's direct ancestors. The dispute arises over details. Some researchers, including Anthropologist Donald Johanson, director of the Berkeley-based Institute of Human Origins, think that a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, which includes the celebrated 3 million-year-old skeleton called Lucy, was the common ancestor of all later australopithecines, as well as man. The two branches, they say, split about 3 million years ago, with the Australopithecus line...
...first, says Walker, the group also haddifficulty working out how much Harvard historyand U.S. history the event should contain. "Wewere doing a whole kind of parallel between thehistory of our country and the history of Harvard.Then we decided we shouldn't try to link it thatmuch...
...Astros-Red Sox series will parallel the Rockets--Celtics series. Except the Houston team will win this time...