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over terminal screens and pore over mounds of studies for up to 16 hours each day. Their mission: to advance Japan one giant step in the world of computers, creating new ultrahigh-speed machines dedicated to that branch of computer science known as artificial intelligence...
Down the long corridors of the Tokyo University of Arts and in the crowded classrooms of the Toho Gakuen school, the technicians are at work, taking the measure of one of Japan's hottest imports. They pore over its structure as carefully as they would over a new automobile design; they grasp it as firmly as they do a microchip or a reflex-camera lens, anticipating the day when their country will be as formidable in this field as it is in so many others. It is not the Three Cs-cameras, computers and cars-that fire their imagination...
...loves you, baby? Who watches you and watches over you? Who protects and exposes you? Who finds poetry in every pore, grace in your limbs, mystery behind those eyes? Whose passive power turns you on, gets you acting and acting up, captures your gifts? Who can never forget you? Who is your perfect lover, baby? The camera...
...Prune Minister Bob Hawke, who inherited a multitude of economic woes upon taking office earlier this month, has so far offered no solutions except for a $435,000 short-term trial of cloud seeding. Yet the drought's consequences are seeping into every pore of his nation's welfare. Some areas are suffering 40% unemployment. One estimate predicts that the total loss to the nation may amount to $7.5 billion. Australia, which relies on agriculture for half its export earnings, may also find it difficult to regain the markets it is steadily losing. Lamented the national daily...
...both in the Administration and on Capitol Hill. No one questions his appetite for work: he generally rises at 5:30 a.m., jogs for 15 minutes, is at his desk by 7:30 and stays for the next twelve hours or so before packing his briefcase with papers to pore over at home. For relaxation, he spends an occasional night out at the National Symphony and squeezes in a weekend trip now and then to his vacation home on Mount Desert Island in Maine. But some Reagan aides and G.O.P. Senators had hoped that he would live...