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...ones. So I've had them. Some of it's been fun, because I always think of myself in the image of the fugitave slave. Now I'm doing opera--a libretto that's been commissioned by the San Francisco Opera, so they have to follow me in the thicket of Tosca and all these different operas. I'm writing in Japanese, so they have to learn that...
General Magic's solution is an "intelligent" messaging system called Telescript, which has won the backing of an impressive list of computer and ( communications companies. In Telescript, electronic messages contain little computer programs that can guide the words, sounds or pictures through the thicket of interlocking computer networks. You just slap a name or address on a message and fire it off. Either it goes all the way to the recipient's personal computer (not merely to, say, MCI Mail's computer) or you are alerted that something has gone wrong...
Scientists have long suspected that top quarks are routinely produced by the powerful collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. So far, however, a thicket of more ordinary particles has concealed them from view. But the top may not elude discovery much longer. In late October, researchers at Fermilab's Collider Detector found a provocative set of tracks hinting that a top may have briefly materialized, then vanished like a Halloween ghost. The tantalizing event was reported at a conference held at the facility in mid-November. Since then, physicists have talked of little else...
...including Pan Am and Eastern, the air war is going global. As carriers around the world mount new battles for international market share, they are forming alliances with other airlines and pooling resources. Before most of the new partnerships can get off the ground, though, they must navigate the thicket of trade restrictions that still restrain international airline traffic. Many governments fear that foreign carriers are gaining too great an advantage in their markets, undermining local jobs and revenues. Says Edmund Greenslet, publisher of the Airline Monitor, a trade publication: "National feelings about airlines obviously trigger more passion than...
...first place, but by some 400 left-wing anarchists. Chancellor Helmut Kohl was forced to abandon the procession shortly after beginning it. More enduring was the image of Germany's distinguished President, Richard von Weizsacker, his coat splotched by eggs, wanly shouting a message of peace from behind a thicket of police riot shields...