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Nobody claims to have created true artificial life -- yet. But some have come intriguingly close. Christopher Langton, a researcher at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory, gets credit for coining the term artificial life. $ He was fiddling in the mid-'80s with programs known as cellular automata when he stumbled on a loop-shaped figure that could spontaneously reproduce itself. "That was a watershed," he says. "If you could capture self- reproduction, what else could...
...magazine was one of the milestones, as well as a chief booster, on the march of feminism in the '70s and '80s. But as feminism won more and more victories, Ms. allowed itself to become predictable and boring, losing the interest of both readers and advertisers. Eight months ago, it stopped publishing. Now Ms. is back, with a livelier appearance and a distinction rare in the magazine business: it does not accept or run ads. Arriving in subscribers' mailboxes this week is a revivified bimonthly that stresses the latest in feminist analysis and activism and that has a look resembling...
...opposition to any tax increase that falls on the middle class or the poor. Bush's goal of reducing the capital-gains levy is another inviting target. The Democratic Leadership Council has concocted a "tax fairness index" showing that the wealthy have benefited most from tax changes of the '80s. Last week Mario Cuomo visited Washington to marshal opposition to a Republican attempt to raise federal revenue by limiting the deductibility of state and local income taxes. Raise rates on those making $200,000 and more, Cuomo demanded. "Don't come to us, and take it out of the pockets...
...Taking over at Lauder in 1990 is a challenge. The 44-year-old company is the biggest American cosmetics maker. Its roots are in the Hungarian recipes for face creams that the legendary Estee, now in her 80s, brewed up. Her son Leonard, 57, turned these potions into a huge international business, which includes perfumes, as well as divisions like Clinique and Aramis. He is president of the parent company and the one to whom Burns reports...
...England, was the first of a projected tetralogy on gay life in modern America. The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) chronicles gay life through the liberated 1960s; if White lives long enough, he hopes to complete the series with novels about the frenzied bathhouse '70s and the plague-ridden '80s. In the meantime he is working on a biography of Jean Genet and teaching courses on the French playwright and on creative writing at Brown University. Although his semiautobiographical coming-out themes are staples of gay fiction, White has transcended the genre with his wit, attention to sensuous detail...