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FROM an oratorical standpoint, Walter Mondale gave the best speech of his life that night. The crowd at the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco (admittedly, a partisan audience) was hanging on his every word. Even though he was following Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro, the lead-toungued Minnesotan was thrilling the audience...
Harvard Tri-Captain Lynley Ogilvie is one of the leading scorers on the Harvard women's water polo team this year. In the process, she has redefined the word "metamorphosis...
WITHOUT a word of public debate, Dr. Philip Leder '56, a Harvard geneticist, was granted a patent earlier this month for his engineered mouse. This marked the first time an animal was classified as an invention. Designed to be susceptible to cancer, the mouse will allow researchers to better understand the causes of that disease in humans...
...What did you mean with your use of the word "grasshopper" two weeks ago to describe some Palestinians...
...chips achieve their performance breakthroughs? In a word: RISC, for reduced instruction set computer. RISC is not a new technology, but a fresh approach to computing that challenges 25 years of semiconductor design. It focuses on a computer's most basic commands: the instructions that are embedded, or hard-wired, into the silicon circuitry of the machine's central processing unit. The first computers made do with a handful of primitive commands, such as LOAD, ADD and STORE, which programmers combined to perform complex tasks. Lacking a command to multiply 6 times 5, for example, they had to instruct their...