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Donoghue was born in Chicago 1952. But since his father was a cultural anthropologist who completed his Ph.D dissertation in Japan and got a teaching position in Sendai, Donoghue's earliest memories involve "speaking Japanese and going to a Japanese kindergarten, and lots of snow [in northern Japan...
...field, unveiled its long-awaited commercial online service two weeks ago and last week announced that it would add Quake to its roster of games. Meanwhile, TEN's chief competitors--Mpath and Engage--are testing services that they expect to be fully operational this month. A fourth competitor, Sendai, has just been purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. All four companies hope to make a killing, or at least a decent living, bringing interactive fun and games to cyberspace...
...Kosko, a Zadeh protege and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California: "Fuzziness begins where Western logic ends." In the early '80s several Japanese firms plunged enthusiastically into fuzzy research. By 1985 Hitachi had installed the technology's most celebrated showpiece: a subway system in Sendai, about 200 miles north of Tokyo, that is operated by a fuzzy computer. Not only does it give an astonishingly smooth ride (passengers do not need to hang on to straps), but it is also 10% more energy efficient than systems driven by human conductors...
...separate its elements; the heavy red blood cells sink to the bottom, white cells settle just above, and the liquid plasma rises to the top. The Red Cross keeps the plasma and red cells for transfusions and turns the white cells over to Cantell. He infects the leukocytes with Sendai virus, an influenza-like virus harmless to humans, and incubates them at 37.5? C (99.5? F) for 24 hours. The resultant IF solution is centrifuged to separate out the white cells and partly purified to destroy the virus. What remains is a highly impure IF preparation; even after...
Swords of Bamboo. But Japanese soldiers still practice kendo-the art of swordsmanship-even though no swords are permitted in military services. They use traditional bamboo staves. And a division recruited near Sendai has been lectured by its officers about its predecessor: the tough Imperial 2nd Division that killed 2,200 in the battle for Guadalcanal's Henderson Field. Fully 14% of the officer corps are veterans of the Pacific war, including Army Chief of Staff Yoshifusa Amano, 55, who served the Imperial army in China, Indochina and the Northern Pacific. "Fortunately, the climate toward the forces is getting...