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...dramatic growth in museum-store sales partly reflects the sheer variety of products. These range from the sublime to the slightly ridiculous. Staple items include postcards, calendars, notecards and posters. Beyond that, the potpourri is far less predictable. At the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut one can buy a wooden handcrafted model of a ship ($10,000). Shoppers at Boston's Museum of Science store can take home a tiny piece of the moon, complete with a lunar map locating the crater from which the rock was taken. The single best-selling item in the Smithsonian stores...
Shoppers often enjoy a museum store's ambience. However crowded the gift shopgets, it suggests an artistic milieu impossible to find in, say, a K mart. Says Cindy Marano, a Washington resident who was visiting Chicago's Art Institute last week: "Museum shops are a wonderful place to buy presents. At malls everything seems the same and impersonal...
Buckley has since abandoned the Heathkit. Aside from the seagoing Epson, he has four Kaypro portables, two IBM PCs (an AT and an XT), and a TeleVideo terminal. The IBM AT, which he keeps at his home in Connecticut, is able to store an entire novel in its customized internal memory. All the computers run the best-selling WordStar program. "I'm told there are better programs," says Buckley. "But I'm also told there are better alphabets." Despite owning all this equipment, he has never played a computer game, tapped into a data base or run numbers through...
...program is an expert system that mimics the thought process of a human being and derives its store of knowledge from Myers' 45 years in internal medicine. To tap its expertise, a physician enters information about a patient (age, sex, symptoms, lab data) and waits briefly while the computer sifts through the 4,000-odd symptoms and notes in its data base and comes up with a list of possible illnesses. The doctor can then direct the machine toward one condition in particular, or switch the computer to an interrogative mode, in which it will ask for additional pertinent facts...
Entrepreneurs in Chengdu dabble in many things, but few are as versatile as Zhang Wu, 36, who owns a construction firm, an appliance store, a beauty shop and a nightclub. The son of an officer in Chiang Kai-shek's army, Zhang was branded a counterrevolutionary and he languished behind bars for a dozen years before being freed in 1977. Though Zhang is so wealthy he can afford a car, the ultimate luxury, he still feels ostracized. "People look down on me because I was in jail for political reasons," he says, perhaps ignoring the fact that some may suffer...