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Finally, most printers come with a choice of either a parallel or serial interface. IBM and compatible owners should probably ask for a parallel interface...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Tough Choices: Finding the Perfect Printer | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

...production difficulties, a serial article slated to continue in today's paper does not appear. The feature on relations between government and academia will run in tomorrow's paper

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTE TO READERS | 11/18/1986 | See Source »

...tree. Around his belt, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), American-educated leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) wears a knife and a 9-mm automatic pistol; his thick hands are clasped around the stock and barrel of a Hungarian-made AKM assault rifle, private serial number 000. Suddenly, the stillness is broken by the shouts of 1,000 of Garang's guerrillas passing on their way to battle at nearby Kapoeta, a southern Sudanese town 140 miles east of the city of Juba. First they chant, "Garang, Garang, Garang." Then they break into song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan War Is Better Than a Bad Peace | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Calif., in 1984. In the past two decades, random mass slayings have become increasingly common in the U.S. It is a phenomenon peculiar to the late 20th century: a single twisted soul / slaughtering near or total strangers, acting on a vague, incomprehensible motive. Like so many other mass murderers, serial killers and assassins, Sherrill, 44, was described as a quiet loner. He was unmarried and apparently had no close friends, although he was a ham-radio nut who made calls as far away as Australia. After his mother's death in 1978, he continued to live in the modest white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy Pat's Revenge | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...uses a kind of Method forensics to identify with a killer's motives and thus predict his next move. But Will has much to lose as well: a wife, a son, a family life just like those the psycho loves to explode. And thanks to a tip from another serial killer (Brian Cox), the psycho has Will's home address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Slumming in Summertime | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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