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...eighth-graders giggle over. "Every lady has a box," she says. "My box is special. Because it makes music. But it has to be turned on." Adults wince, but the youngsters love it. "I like the way she handles herself, sort of take it or leave it," says Kim Thomson, 17, a Wanna Be in Houston. "She's sexy but she doesn't need men, really. She's kind of there by herself." Says Teresa Hajdik, also 17: "She gives us ideas. It's really women's lib, not being afraid of what guys think...
...professor came to Radcliffe and taught the classes again there. There were no men in classes," Thomson said...
Servan-Schreiber argues that the French models selected for the program (a network of inexpensive machines, such as a Thomson, hooked up to larger computers like the Bull Micral) are not Macintosh's equal. Said he: "I personally believe that the best machine is the Macintosh. I am not against French industry. It is just a choice of technology...
...point drop has little practical impact on individuals living in crime-ridden areas. Perceptions of the danger come more from reading about crime in local newspapers or hearing about it from neighbors. "People experience crime in terms of their vicarious personal lives, not in terms of statistics," notes Douglas Thomson, a criminal-justice-system researcher at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Even with the decline, murder in the U.S. is more prevalent than in other industrial democracies. The violent crime rate in New York City was, in fact, 22 times that of Tokyo in 1983. Only the Soviet Union...
...exuberant by the recollection that the paper has repeatedly seemed likely to die. A money loser, the Times was shut down for a year in 1978 and 1979 by striking craft workers, who opposed the installation of modern technology. In October 1980, faced with mounting deficits, then Owner Lord Thomson said he would fold the Times unless he found a buyer within five months. When he found one, his choice seemed to much of the staff, and to many of the Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, proprietor of the tabloid...