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Next to my cell, they had installed a gymnasium equipped with all the requisite physiotherapy contraptions: tables, pulleys and parallel bars. They then began to put me through intensive treatment. Supervision was very strict and the guards were handpicked. The authorities already had the intention of releasing me, and their objective was to remove all the aftereffects of the ill-treatment I had been subjected to. Castro had told several ambassadors and statesmen who had taken an interest in my plight that until I could walk I would not leave the country. The colonels in the political police often told...
...began to regain the use of my legs. I was given food that was in short supply: a liter of milk each day, lots of meat, fruit, vegetables, vitamins and minerals. Several months later I was able to stop using the orthopedic devices. I began to walk between the parallel bars, lurching and staggering at first, then moving with more confidence. I was able to squat down and run in place, but I was still unable to walk without holding on to the parallel bars. I tended to reel off sideways, the result of having remained too long...
Police's lead singer and premier song writer, who is called Sting, explains: "Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically." That's a tall order for a five-minute four-second tune, but Sting is a fleet writer and his song can carry the weight. Drummer Stewart Copeland has a slightly different, more bemused explanation. He maintains that "Sting is in his Germanic-scientists-of-unpronounceable-names phase. I know...
DiBerardinas said that Harvard has tried to reduce the glare by increasing room lighting or moving terminals away from a windows. To alleviate the placement problems, he has recommended that the VDT's be located at a specific distance from the user's eyes, so that his forearms are parallel to the floor DeBerardinas also suggested occasional breaks in the workday...
...generation relied on vacuum tubes, the second on transistors, the third on integrated circuits and the fourth, just emerging, relies on very-large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI), with chips so compact they must be designed by another computer. The fifth generation will arrange large numbers of VLSI chips in parallel, clearing the way for dramatic breakthroughs in speed and power. More important, these computers will use their new potency not only to process mathematical data, like most computers today, but also to perform human-like reasoning: finding patterns, making assumptions, drawing inferences, reaching conclusions. Using a language called PROLOG (programming...