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...finished drawing out the chip, with 2000-plus transistors, two days before the deadline, and spent the rest of the week running simulation tests and fixing bugs. The good news is that there were no major design errors and, to our utmost satisfaction, the software simulation worked...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 5/21/1993 | See Source »

Because the program takes place in the Mission Hill Project in downtown Boston, safety is of the utmost importance, Stulberg says. As Stulberg prepares to send her groups of volunteers to different locations within the project in the neighboring Harvard School of Public Health, she asks two volunteers to walk a child home after the program...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Someone They Can Trust | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

Homosexuals who try to maintain a relationship proceed with utmost caution. Bill, a Navy medical corpsman, has a civilian lover. When they are together in Bill's apartment complex, which is populated by a lot of Navy personnel, they are careful not to touch or exchange intimate glances. Bill is a veteran of the double life. He visits straight bars with his straight friends, "dates" a lesbian friend, and once hired a prostitute while in port in the Philippines. "I just took her to my hotel, and we talked," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Sex, Lies and the Military | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...armed with my backpack full of good intentions, I resolved to shop an Arabic class. Despite the fact that I was following the path mapped out by a star-studded panel of University luminaries, Harvard did its utmost to prevent me from carrying out my adventurous resolution...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Not the Final Word | 10/10/1992 | See Source »

...supposed to get a fair trial, in which their attorneys are equipped to make the best possible case on their behalf. Because the majority of murder defendants are also broke, however, many of them get court-appointed lawyers who lack the resources, experience or inclination to do their utmost. When the Supreme Court restored capital punishment in 1976, it did so in the expectation that death sentences would be imposed in a fair and equitable manner. It hasn't always worked that way. Some people go to traffic court with better prepared lawyers than many murder defendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Coleman: You Don't Always Get Perry Mason | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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