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...camera and recorder will show up in many stores in the U.S. Price: $1,695. The system uses videotape about half the width of that in VCRs, which are now in nearly a fifth of American homes, in a unit about the size of an audiotape cassette. It will permit more compact playback and recording systems, with quality that is "as good as the Beta format," says Sony Deputy President Masaaki Morita, brother of the company's chairman, Akio...
...days, NASA officials at Mission Control debated whether to attempt repairs. Hughes engineers theorized that the satellite might have failed because a hooklike "trigger" that projected from its side was not fully engaged. NASA officials agreed, but would not permit any of the Discovery team to leave the ship to work on the crippled satellite. The officials decided it was too dangerous for astronauts to perform unrehearsed work between objects as large as the rotating LEASAT and the shuttle, especially since the satellite's rockets were fueled...
...Massachusetts Senate, and later the state’s House of Representatives, voted overwhelmingly late last week to permit the use of somatic-cell nuclear transfer, a process by which scientists clone embryos and extract their stem cells for research purposes...
...does not permit wholesale copying (which is what digitization is),” a publishing representative wrote to The Crimson last week. Yet the digitization project only seeks to make excerpts of copyrighted material publicly available, a service that Amazon has provided for years. Even if the project did technically violate existing copyright law, this legal complication would derive from the obsolescence of copyright law, not the law’s actual intent. After all, the bulk of copyright law was written before digitization or the Internet ever existed. In fact, the true spirit of the copyright statutes has always...
...failed. This administration of artificial nutrition and hydration is just like using a ventilator to take over when a person cannot breathe on his or her own. It’s a medical means of substituting for a bodily function—appropriate in the short term to permit the body to recover, but inappropriate to use for extended periods of time as the only hope of maintaining the patient’s heartbeat...