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...think its possible to build inexpensive telescopes to discover comets and search for supernovas," Sadler said...
Deep Thought, created by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, can search 700,000 positions per second and analyze from five to 20 upcoming moves by each side as well as each move's implications...
Meanwhile, a flotilla of ferries and extra trains helped keep rain-soaked traffic in San Francisco moving yesterday, but only at a bumper-to-bumper pace. In the rain, rescuers halted the search for survivors at an earthquake-flattened freeway when the rubble became too unstable...
Long before young Brooklyn-born Allen Konigsberg had sold his first joke or even dreamed of making a film, he was scouring record stores in search of New Orleans music. Woody first caught the bug at age 14, when he happened to hear a Saturday-morning radio show devoted to Bechet, one of the all-time great clarinet and soprano saxophone players. "I heard it, and it just sounded wonderful," he recalls. "It was sort of like an opening of the dike." With the facility for self-teaching that he would later demonstrate as writer and filmmaker, he laid...
...Anybody who says we've got this problem licked is a fool or a knave or both." Microbiologist J. Michael Bishop was referring to the slow, almost imperceptible progress in the search for a cancer cure. So when Bishop, 53, and colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute...