Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Time--It seems that author Michael Crichton '64 is already making an impact on Harvard's Board of Overseers, to which he was elected last June. When the Board began discussing computer technology for the University last weekend, Crichton, who wrote the The Andromeda Strain, a novel about high-tech efforts to fight an extraterrestial microbe, was especially interested. According to another overseer, "There's nothing [being developed now] that wasn't in the The Andromeda Strain 25 years...
...executive John A. Armstrong '56 and Michael Crichton '64, author of the science fiction novel The Andromeda Strain, which described high-tech efforts to battle a mutating extraterrestrial virus, showed a particular interest in the use of computers for teaching, one overseer said...
...Bennett and his business pals were tripped up by the high-tech gadgets they depended on to keep the cops in the dark. On Nov. 6, 1988, two of Michael Harris' delivery men were stopped by Missouri state troopers for driving a van at 68 m.p.h. in a 55 m.p.h. zone. The officers found 1,100 lbs. of coke in the vehicle. They also seized a cellular telephone. Tidily programmed into its memory were Bennett's telephone number in Tempe and that of a Los Angeles company linked to Villabona...
...vehicle for a spin. About 16 miles down the road, he rumbled into what was formerly West Berlin and headed down the fashionable Kurfurstendamm, hitting several cars -- though no people. As the soldier was attempting to return to his garrison, a Soviet sergeant stopped him with a distinctly low-tech ploy: he hopped onto the carrier and threw a blanket over the vehicle's windshield...
Evidently the police took a liking to the concept, and by this week had gone decidedly high tech. At Thursday's ACT UP protest, two Harvard police officers panned the crowd of picketers and more militant activists with video cameras...