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...that’s a swell idea! Let’s pour thousands of man-hours into a pointless, second-long display that will be the high point of our college lives...
Figure skater Paul Wylie gets his opportunitytonight. The second-time Olympian will be the 17thperformer in this evening'stwo-minutes-and-40-second-long original program...
...wants to do some business. At Harvard Management Company (HMC) in Boston's financial district, one of the four traders simply places a call on one of the 90 direct lines to the money moguls to ask, "What's your market in stock X, Y, or Z?" Through such second-long transactions, Harvard traders shuffle around an average of $4 million each day. In the last three months, under HMC's care, the endowment raked in a 10-cent profit for every dollar moved in daily trading...
...maiden voyage in January, the orbiter Challenger will carry up an equally impressive bird: the first component of the U.S.'s new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The TRW-built satellite will digest the equivalent of 140 encyclopedia volumes in a single, second-long electronic gulp. Eventually the system will consist of four satellites ringing the earth at roughly equal distances from one another. TDRSS will relay signals not only between ground and orbit but also between satellites, thereby eliminating the need for a globe-girdling network of ground stations to keep in touch with spacecraft like...