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...guidance of more than 50 computers, a pulse of light is whipped around a master oscillator until all of its wavelengths are identical and in phase. The pulse of pure laser light is then split into ten parts, each of which races down its own 460-ft.-long tube equipped with amplifiers, spatial filters and isolators. As it emerges, each beam is focused to about the width of three human hairs, yet is a thousand trillion times brighter than the sunlight that falls on the earth. Together they deliver 100 trillion watts of power, about 200 times the present electricity...
After talking to some friendly people over at UMD, I sent two stories back to The Crimson. One was just another regular hockey notebook. The other, written while Madonna performed "Like a Virgin" on the tube, was about what I had discovered in Duluth...
...undoubtedly lived in the Zaccaro household, at least when all those accountants aren't cluttering up the place. Here we are, sharing a typical moment of televised intimacy between a famous mother, her two daughters and a Pepsi. Like most Americans, I found myself riveted to the tube as she told the daughters, "You can be anything you want to be" and that being a mother was one of the choices she was most proud of. You've just got to admire a politician who comes out for motherhood, no matter who is offended by it. And I liked...
...portrays the wealthy Ruth Sumner, another manipulative mother and one of those prime-time soap characters like J.R. and Alexis who manage to drub everyone the wrong way. "It's a whole new way of working," says Gardner. "I can't seem to calm down." She took to the tube "mainly for the money," she admits, and expects to return to her home in London as soon as her Landing shooting schedule is finished in Hollywood. "Oh television," sighs Gardner. "It's awfully small, isn't it?" But she is welcome in any size...
...David Steinberg, were back in person recently for an anniversary reunion, which was taped by Home Box Office for airing in April. And in the world beyond, a Second City troupe is established in Toronto, touring companies are on the road, and SCTV is in reruns on the tube, still biting the hand that feeds...