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...course, anyone with a pocket protector will point out that labeling Harvard's "biggest" computer requires gross simplification. Are we talking biggest monitor? Biggest capacity? Computer which allows most number of simultaneous log-ons? Computer "size" is truly in the definition of the beholder, and Machine Room #1 can be considered to house the "biggest" only in the sense that its giant is currently devoted to the largest single task of any Harvard computer system...
...used to be -- and maybe it still is -- that making computer games for a living was every adolescent?s dream, at least among the pocket protector crowd. Sleep all day, play with Nerf toys all night, drink Mountain Dew -- what could be better? And computer games are selling better than ever -- in 1997, they generated $5.6 billion in revenues. But a rash of lawsuits and recalls in the past few months is teaching the industry a tough lesson: Becoming a mainstream medium brings with it responsibility. MORE...
...first half against Yale, Harvey picked the pocket of a Bulldog ball-handler, navigated the length of the court and laid the ball in the hole...
...serious scientist thinks anything so dire will come to pass. For Monsanto, however, with a technology in its pocket and a fight on its hands, the situation is about as grim as it can get--at least in terms of public relations. "From a marketing perspective, the technology is brilliant," says biotech critic Jeremy Rifkin. "From a social perspective, it's pathological. This is a question of who controls the seeds of life...
...stationery what looked like thank-you notes. John Breaux hunched over two nearly identical briefing books, one on the trial, the other on an upcoming Mardi Gras event. Jay Rockefeller, a compulsive highlighter, covered entire pages in yellow. Bob Kerrey drew a rainbow. Joe Biden kept taking out his pocket calendar, as if it must surely be February by now. Senator John McCain perked up enormously when a page delivered a phone message. What fun, a hall pass! It would be a cheap shot, looking down from the press gallery, to comment on hair. But on a per capita basis...