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When Michael Wise sits down at a keyboard, he never knows when he will get up. The plump, bearded computer programmer often works twelve, 24, even 36 hours without a break, filling a green screen at the San Rafael, Calif., offices of Broderbund Software with words and numbers that only he and his computer completely understand. Since December, Wise has written 40,000 lines of instructions for a video game he calls Captain Goodnight, after the old Captain Midnight radio series. By the time the program is ready for release this summer, it will have grown to 50,000 lines...
...lines of code Wise types into his Apple He may look like a meaningless string of letters and numbers, but they are the crucial link between computers and the people who use them. At the heart of every machine are thousands of on-off switches. Wise's 64K Apple has 524,288. Software tells the switches when to turn on and off, and those switches control the machine...
...stressed that he was not reaching to any particular event. "It might be just as wise to look at [free speech] when there isn't a particular event, but to make sure that we are always doing everything we can to protect people's rights," Bok said, mentioning the lag of several months since the Weinburger incident...
...always travels with a trusted aide, Hart often sits alone on the campaign plane, reading magazines or staring out the window. This week Hart aides tried to find their man a "sage" on the order of Mondale's Jim Johnson or John Reilly. But the two would-be wise men-Mark Hogan, a former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, and Ronald Dozoretz, a Portsmouth, Va., psychiatrist who is active in state politics-are neither national political heavyweights nor particularly close to Hart. Hart's staff fears that the candidate is burning out. "I keep asking him to take...
Amendment opponents insist that organized, vocal prayer can never be truly voluntary. Children of different faiths, or none, will feel themselves forced by social pressure to join in. Contends Rabbi Balfour Brickner of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "If the prayer is spoken, it will be physically coercive, and if silent it will be psychologically coercive." The alternative, opponents contend, is to offer prayers so general as to be meaningless, even offensive to the truly religious. The establishment of a neutered "civil religion" is offensive to many who believe deeply in their own faiths. Says Robert Minor, professor...