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Simply called "The Computer Museum" and located on Boston's waterfront, the museum had its grand opening on Tuesday, with a scissor-wielding robot cutting the perforated computer ribbon. Officials say the museum's purposes is to show the general public how computers were developed, how they work, and what they...
...enough to carry 150 passengers should be twice as fuel efficient as the 100-passenger Concorde. But its maximum speed of 1 ½ times the speed of sound (Mach 1.5) would be 25% less than the Anglo-French craft's Mach 2.04. A likelier role for a scissor plane might be as a military patrol craft whose pivoting wing would allow both long flights and the bursts of speed needed for hot pursuit. NASA thinks the flying scissors also has a role as a cost-cutting corporate...
Case in Point. Touted as the one man advertising campaign for Prince, Gene Mayer of Woodmere, Long Island has scissor-kicked from no-man's-land at no 148 to a center court No 4 ranking in the world in the brief three years since he picked up the Prince. Other top "Princelings" include super star Sammy Giammalva, age 18, Schlomo Glickstein of Israel, and Hollywood heartthrob Vince Van Patten. In the future the plethora of oversized racquets will become even more impressive as more than on-half of the U.S. Junior Davis Cup players "swear"'by oversized racquets...
...courtroom door swings open to the beat of music that sounds like a cross between . the themes from Hollywood Squares and Mission: Impossible. In stride Plaintiffs Katharina and Max Binder, the angry owners of Binder's Scissor Styling. Next come the defendants, Ray Cason and his daughter Michelle, 12. At issue: $43 that Cason refused to pay the Binders for a permanent that Michelle got in their salon one afternoon. Cason claimed that the permanent failed to hold up through Michelle's birthday party that evening...
...better alternative is to turn to one of the 170-odd nonprofit community credit counseling services. The services make the debtor sign an agreement to take on no more credit and to hand over all his charge cards. Often a counselor will scissor the cards to pieces before the debtor's eyes. The service then negotiates extended repayment of the loans and collects a fixed monthly payment from the debtor that it parcels out among the creditors...