Word: vision
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...sunny market square in Wiener Neustadt, 30 miles south of Vienna, is a reassuring vision of small-town tranquillity. Leathery-faced farmers and their wives sell vegetables and wurst from stalls. The local citizenry--some of the men dressed in lederhosen, the women in dirndls--greet one another with elaborate courtesy, a scene that evokes the continuity of old traditions. In fact, the town square's ancient buildings were ruins 41 years ago, flattened by Allied bombing, and were later lovingly reconstructed...
Whether recalling the glories of the past or peering with lofty vision into the future, the men and women who have led America to the high frontier of space still marvel at what they have wrought and yearn restlessly to get on with what they are certain will one day come to be. In a mere quarter-century, the human race has broken its immemorial bond to the life-sustaining surroundings of the home planet. U.S. space pioneers have been able to orbit the globe, walk on the moon, ring the earth with communications satellites and send a machine nearly...
...worked out, his strange new machine will be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 1 billion instructions a second--roughly the power of a Cray X-MP supercomputer but at a quarter the cost. Moreover, the Connection Machine offers the hope of solving problems in machine vision and artificial intelligence for which today's supercomputers are woefully ill equipped. Says Stephen Squires, a spokesman for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department bureau that put up $4.7 million for the computer's development: "It has surpassed our expectations...
Nussbaum, who calls himself an activist, saysthat as long as students serve not ondecision-making bodies, but on bodies that makeonly recommendations to the administration,Harvard will remain undemocratic. The council'sfounders had that vision in mind, the Mather Housesenior says, but this year's council faltered...
Although he never ran for office, Nussbaum hasbeen one of the council's most influential, vocalmembers. "What I've been doing when you've heardme yelling and shouting at the meetings is tryingto keep alive the vision of the council that wasthe vision of the founders," he says...