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Clark dropped the No. 6 match in straight sets to put the Broncos up, but-Doran showed that he was prepared to perform in the second singles position by evening things with a 6-2, 6-2 win. At No. 4, co-captain Mike Passarella lost in straight sets...
...Crimson did not perform as well as hoped, but the Ivy League consists of teams of a different caliber than those Harvard has seen over the past several weeks, meaning there is a different sort of challenge--avoiding complacency...
...with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like PC functions? Well, there will always be geeks who have to have too much computing power. But the rest of us may be satisfied gazing into our microwaves...
...scientific tour de force, Florey, Chain and their colleagues rapidly purified penicillin in sufficient quantity to perform the experiment that Fleming could not: successfully treating mice that had been given lethal doses of bacteria. Within a year, their results were published in a seminal paper in the Lancet. As the world took notice, they swiftly demonstrated that injections of penicillin caused miraculous recoveries in patients with a variety of infections...
...device in this inspired mind-experiment quickly acquired a name: the Turing machine. And so did another of Turing's insights. Since the instructions on the tape governed the behavior of the machine, by changing those instructions, one could induce the machine to perform the functions of all such machines. In other words, depending on the tape it scanned, the same machine could calculate numbers or play chess or do anything else of a comparable nature. Hence his device acquired a new and even grander name: the Universal Turing Machine...