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Focusing on recent Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, Director of Boston Lawyers for Civil Rights Alan J. Rom, told the audience of 35 people that the United States could only effectively address civil rights issues if it had the will, which, he said, it currently does...
...computer CD, known in the industry as a CD ROM (for "read only memory"), is just 4.72 in. in diameter but can store as much information as a stack of typewritten pages nine stories high. Dozens of reference books, from Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia to Roget's Thesaurus, have appeared in CD form, and many more...
...drawing attention to the May Day rally. The demonstrators complied. When the parade returned some 30 minutes later, however, only half of the participants returned with it. The reduced crowd of 2,000 faithful remained to hear Nicaragua's agrarian reform minister, Jaime Wheelock Román, heap scorn on Nicaragua's Roman Catholic hierarchy for suggesting that the government should negotiate with the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas, who are waging hit-and-run warfare along the country's borders. Yet the generally desultory nature of the festivities was one more indication that the Sandinistas...
...This is a pretty tough year for us," said Jennifer A Rom '85, one of the new directors and a bookkeeping assistant in HSA's business office. "We're trying to think of new ways to increase profit, but we're going to be struggling a bit," she added...
That said, Crichton manages to create a believable human framework for micromachines. Electronic Life is a casual, alphabetized guidebook, with a brief initiation into high-tech jargon (RAM, ROM, kilobyte) and arcana (magnetic fields, artificial intelligence and dedicated machines). The process is reassuring for the technophobic. "Fear of computers is normal," writes Crichton. "A certain amount of kicking and screaming is useful...