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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also returning for the aquadudes are seniors Rod Phares, Jay Rossiter and John David ('85-'86), graduating junior Bruce Novis, and sophomores Bill Wolff and Peter Kaiser...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Three-Time Winner | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...brutal murder in Chicago last year of a black high school basketball star, Ben Wilson, by two youths who seemed to have no motive at all. The other was the incredible burst of support from black New Yorkers for Bernhard Goetz, the white subway vigilante. He was a lightning rod for the fears that many blacks have of their own violent young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Sep. 16, 1985 | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...time series attract loyal viewers by their familiarity, not by offering a vagrant astonishment each week. The operative word-of-mouth phrase is "you ought to see," not "you should have seen." Amazing Stories has no continuing characters, tone or stars--not even a regular host, like Hitchcock or Rod Serling. Viewers may prefer to settle in with Angela Lansbury's rumpled caginess in Murder, She Wrote instead of taking a chance with the faceless brilliance of the Spielberg series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Coming Up From Nowhere | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

Also returning for the aquadudes are seniors Rod Phares, Jay Rossiter and John David ('85-'86), graduating junior Bruce Novis, and sophomores Bill Wolff and Peter Kaiser...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Three-Time Winner | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...Stanford physician and computer scientist named Edward Shortliffe. Using tools developed for AI research, Shortliffe boiled down everything he knew about diagnosing infectious blood diseases and meningitis into about 500 "if-then"rules. Rule 27, for example, said that if an organism found in a patient's blood is rod shaped, gram- negative and able to survive in the absence of oxygen, then there is a strong likelihood that the organism is a type of bacteria called Bacteroides. In tests that applied these rules to cases reported in the medical literature, MYCIN was eventually able to diagnose as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: How to Clone an Expert | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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