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...estimated 15,000 electronic work stations are now in operation in the U.S. Jack Nilles, a director at the University of Southern California's Center for Futures Research, forecasts that in the early 1990s 12 million computers will be sold annually. Other experts predict that within 15 years as many as 10 million people will be working from home...
While observers are reluctant to predict how long this period of quiet, concerned student involvement will last, they say the mood and activity of the campus is beginning to resemble Harvard in the late '50s and early...
...winter of 1980, a bizarre rendezvous allegedly took place in Washington, D.C. A Navy officer in a plain civilian suit carried a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist into the parlor of "Madame Zodiac," psychic and palm reader. By looking at top-secret photographs and charts, the clairvoyant attempted to predict the movements of Soviet submarines off the East Coast. Madame Zodiac's payment: $400 cash...
...million. Along with Arthur Rock, his friend of 30 years, Noyce in 1977 helped bankroll Diasonics, the medical-instrument manufacturer. Noyce's 8% stake in Diasonics is worth $30 million. He helped finance Monoclonal Antibodies, which sells pregnancy-testing kits and hopes to market a product that will predict the timing of ovulation. Noyce has also suffered a few setbacks. Through a venture-capital fund, he invested in Osborne Computer, the maker of portable models, which filed for bankruptcy four months...
...Abraham Lincoln engraved with the first Republican President's pertinent insight: "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." If, as most pundits predict, Reagan does win four more years, the memorial will not be erected until 1989. And next to that bust of the Great Emancipator will be a marble likeness of the Great Communicator with his famous refutation below: "There you go again...