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...Dowler will help manage Harvard's computer storage plans, whichinclude the collection and centralization ofresources from every one of the University's 48repositories. Such improvements will allowstudents to scan library bibliographies on theirpersonal computers at home...
...Customs Service has made technology smuggling a high priority. Through a special project called Operation Exodus, started in 1981, the agency is pursuing more than 800 cases of high-tech thievery and arms smuggling. In one recent case, Customs unraveled an alleged plot to smuggle a sophisticated side-scan sonar device, an invaluable tool for tracking submarines. Made in New Hampshire, the device was bought by a Louisiana firm and shipped to Norway, then to Japan. A Japanese company was installing the device on a Soviet fishing trawler when officials closed...
...wait, don't go home yet. Take the time to scan the 270 courses listed in the Summer School catalog, and you'll discover that many can't be classified as reading, 'riting or 'rithmetic...
...array of cameras and sensors to shipboard computers and monitors. An acoustical locating system, accurate to within 20 in., will guide scientists in assembling a photomosaic of the more than 2,000 high-resolution still photographs the drone has taken of the ship's hull. In addition, a sonar scan will be used to make a false-color three-dimensional computer map of the Monitor...
Rushdie the polemicist, however, tends to dart about these surfaces, fluently gliding over complexities. The dictator the Sandinistas overthrew, he asserts, was a rapist and a castrator; therefore, to call the Sandinistas totalitarian is "obscene." Somehow, the syllogism does not quite scan. Even criticisms of the leadership the visitor takes to be compliments, signs not of dissent but of democracy in action...