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...Edward Snow--then set out to make silicon usable. After months of work, they discovered that most of the MOS instability was traceable to an impurity--sodium--introduced when the chips were cured. Like a drop of lemon juice added to a cup of milk, sodium soured the precious semiconductors. The discovery solved a fundamental problem in materials science and set the stage for the semiconductor revolution. Grove and his team won one of the industry's most prestigious awards for the work. At home, Eva got a hint that Andy might not be your ordinary Hungarian busboy...
...journalists routinely call economic reform in Russia is now more reminiscent of wolves tearing at the carcass of a giant beast. The new banking magnates--oligarchs as they are often known--are fighting over the remains of the Soviet Union. There are very rich pickings: oil fields, natural gas, precious minerals and strategic metals. The people who end up with the largest hunks of the carcass will be powerful figures indeed, both here and abroad...
TIME's Weekend Review For precious figures from Al Gore to Bill Gates, it's been one of those weeks they'd rather forget. Find out why, and get the results of our weeklong Gore Poll. Read the Review LIFE: the week in pictures
Dylan, attired in a classy, dark suit and tie, took the stage to the impassioned cheers of the audience, who recognized this opportunity for the precious one that it was--a chance to hear a legend, aging but still creative as ever, perform in an intimate setting. As Dylan, a Stratocaster slung over his shoulder, launched into his classic, "Maggie's Farm," the thick, biting sound of the band immediately announced to the audience that this concert was not going to be a swan song for an artist past his prime, no nostalgia trip for those wishing to rekindle fond...
...care about safety, convenience and student choice, contact your house masters and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 (lewis@fas.harvard.edu) and inform them that their precious two-door policy is not at stake here. Remind them that Harvard students like you are more interested in visiting friends and forming study groups than in stealing other students' belongings. And tell them you've been offended by their continued lack of respect for the student voice and their weak delay tactics...