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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word PLAY, for instance, tells a properly equipped computer to play a musical note. Another command, SENTENCE, instructs it to put two words together into a sentence. Still more commands direct the movement of a tiny triangular character called the turtle, which crawls across the screen leaving a trace of where it has been. Typing in, say, RIGHT 90, turns the turtle 90° to the right. FORWARD 50 sends it sliding forward about 50 mm. Sitting down at a Logo computer, eight-year-olds can start getting simple results almost immediately. They can also put commands together, like building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Teaching the Turtle New Tricks | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

Leaders of the campus martial arts movement, which now claims about 150 devotees, trace its origins to the Kung Fu Club, a 13-year veteran at Harvard. Most of the other organizations have sprung up in the past five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yes, Grasshopper, Harvard Has Kung Fu, Plus a Whole Lot of Other New Karate Clubs | 10/8/1982 | See Source »

Other factors that may work in the Republican's favor are Batmastan't Armenian name and trace of a foreign accent. As an Armenian running in what includes heavily Armenian sections of Water town, she may benefit from an ethnic crossover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Politicians Preparing for November | 10/5/1982 | See Source »

...lucky," shrugs Malin, and he repeats it about the New York taxicab incident which finally landed him the Cosmos job. The explanations he offers for his luck are uniformly sketchy people needed a good voice knowledge able about soccer, foreign sportscasters like the absence of all but a trace of an Irish brogue, and one thing led to another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Days in the Office, Nights in the Stadium | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

Lebanon's 500,000 Maronites trace their history back to the 5th century. Followers of St. Maron settled in the rugged mountains of what is now northern Lebanon. In those years, Lebanon was a haven of tolerance for persecuted Muslim and Christian sects. The Maronites, who formed a union with Rome in the 12th century, are one of the so-called Eastern rites of the Roman Catholic Church, with their own jealously guarded traditions (including a married clergy and a liturgy celebrated in ancient Syriac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Pledge for Unity | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

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