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...romp. Of the Terriers' 19 shots, 14 came in the second half. Their first score came on a fast break on the left side, with a strong cross kick that was booted past Carlson with 26:18 to go. The second and third goals followed in rapid succession, with 3:47 and 2:42 left in the game...
...rapid growth in the use of computers and computer networks creates a dangerous tension between an individual's right to privacy and the public's right to access information, according to five participants in a panel discussion at the Law School yesterday...
...comparison with those of the camera work. What could Martin have been thinking? One despairs of him. His goal seems to have been to cause the viewer headache instead of render a harmonious picture of 19th-century society, for the camera darts about in a peripatetic ad nauseum of rapid-fire montage as if it were affixed to the neck of a hummingbird. Again and again, its strategy is to alight on one item after another--a glove, a calling card, a painting, a bauble--until it seems that Martin is just showing off his assemblage of period pieces. What...
...right now, it's the video-game designers who have the electronic ball. The rapid advance of technology in the past decade has given them a set of tools with almost unimaginable power: high-speed computer-graphics chips that can create millions of bright colors and flash them on a screen in a fraction of a second; digital compression schemes that can squeeze the equivalent of a complete set of an encyclopedia onto a single silver disc; fiber-optic cable that can beam limitless quantities of data around the world at nearly the speed of light; simulation techniques that...
...members. Bulmash puts his members' names on a "Do not call" list that he sends to more than 1,100 telemarketers. Firms that call anyway can expect to be sued. "If privacy doesn't exist in our homes," Bulmash says, "it doesn't exist at + all." The rapid growth of telemarketing promises to test the much maligned industry's respect for privacy over and over again...