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...daughter three months old; the computer in her cream-colored stucco house in South Minneapolis is surrounded by children's books, laundry, ajar of Dippity Do. An experienced programmer at Control Data before she decided to have children, she now settles in at the computer right after breakfast, sometimes holding the baby in a sling. She starts by reading her computer mail, then sets to work converting a PLATO grammar program to a disc that will be compatible with Texas Instruments machines. "Midmorning I have to start paying attention to the three-year-old, because he gets antsy," says Hardinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Moves In | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...Merriweathers have a three-year-old adopted daughter named Mpho, which means "gift." Her mother came to the hospital desperately ill and about to deliver a baby. Merriweather saved both. Then, he explains, "the grateful mother could think of no better gift for us than the baby. It may seem unconventional in Western terms, but believe me, this is a long way from the West. So we accepted Mpho as a gift from God, and that is what she has been to us ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Missionary | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

...economy gone through more wrenching changes in a shorter period than during 1982, a year when interest rates at long last slumped but unemployment soared; when bankruptcies ballooned but the stock market roared; when recession spread across the economy like oil on a mud puddle but business boomed for a growing list of high-tech games and products for computer-crazed consumers. It was, in short, a year of mind-boggling contrasts. More than anything else, 1982 was the year when the three-year-old inflation-fighting policy of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the nation's top central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booms, Busts and Birth of a Rust Bowl | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

Repairs to fix leaks in other parts of the three-year-old building will keep the Q-Rac's squash and racquetball courts closed through next semester, but the Universal Gym--previously located in the damaged exercise room--has been moved into the main gym so students can use it while the repairs continue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track . . . | 12/4/1982 | See Source »

...tactic worked. Fiske's plea was covered by all three networks and newspapers across the country. The families of some 500 would-be donors phoned the University of Minnesota Hospital, where Jamie lay waiting. Two offers turned out to be useful. One, a liver from a three-year-old on the East Coast, was not suitable for Jamie, but it saved the life of an older transplant patient at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The second organ came from a ten-month-old boy killed in a car-train collision in Utah. His father, Laird Bellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Which Life Should Be Saved? | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

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