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...Geographic Information System is a computer software package which translates tabular information--facts and figures--into visual terms. The program is expected to be a powerful tool in planning the future of the campus...

Author: By Deborah T. Kovsky, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Computer Mapping Adopted | 10/6/1992 | See Source »

...observing this mechanism in traditional poetry," he says, "you have an empirical tool for figuring out the poet's method of composition...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classics Department Works To Integrate Women Better Into Classroom, Curriculum | 9/23/1992 | See Source »

...called the resource center "a consumer tool" and pointed out it was a voluntary program...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tipper Gore Speaks At B.U. | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...surface, the strike was spurred by GM's decision to close down a tool-and-die shop -- but both sides know that larger issues are at stake. What + the corporation insists is a drive to banish outmoded practices that have made its factories the least efficient in the auto industry is perceived by the union as an effort to eliminate jobs. Dave Kimmel, president of UAW Local 1714, said his members received support from workers at distant plants whose weekly incomes are dropping from $700 to $200 a week. "Job security is important to everybody," he said. But the strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awkward Timing | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

Neurologists and psychologists learned long ago that brain injuries can be a powerful tool for investigating how human thought and memory are organized. A case study by two Johns Hopkins researchers, reported in Nature, is but the latest example. A 70-year-old retired librarian who suffered such an injury developed a remarkable symptom: she lost the ability to name animals, though % she could still name other living things, such as plants, and inanimate objects. Nor could she assign physical attributes to animals -- she could not, for example, answer the question "What color is an elephant?" Yet she could answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Has Four Legs . . . | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

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