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...have moved from laboratories to modern homes, offices and factories. With growing speed, the new technology promises to turn the electronic age into the age of optics, in which gadgetry built around beams of light becomes virtually indispensable. Says Robert Spinrad, director of systems technology at Xerox: "The optics boom is just starting to explode. Optics in the 21st century will be what electronics represents in the 20th century...
...boom in upscale help is partly a function of a cost-conscious economic climate. Newly minted lawyers in large cities, for example, can make more than $50,000 a year. Says Anthony Griffin, a partner at St. Clair: "Hiring temporary lawyers enabled us to expand and contract without overextending ourselves...
...cover story billed "Confessions of a Drug- Hype Junkie," written by Adam Paul Weisman, a researcher at U.S. News & World Report who worked on that magazine's July 28 cover story about drug abuse. Weisman charged other publications with "blatant sensationalism" for having ignored statistics indicating there is no boom in drug experimentation among high school students; the number who sampled cocaine, he noted, has been oscillating between 16% and 17% since...
...turn their fire on each other. Moore is the solid front runner. He has presented himself as a staunch Reagan Republican, appealing to conservative Democrats disillusioned by their party's mismanagement of state affairs. "The people in this state know that the rest of the country is seeing boom times," says Moore. "They are not blaming Reagan. They are blaming the local political system for not preparing the state." He has attacked Breaux for his ties to Louisiana's Democratic elite and for missing 1,083 House votes during his Capitol Hill career. In an effort to cut into...
...Although boom boxes and walkmen with speakers do give a similar sound, the box's portability makes it more popular with students. "A box is a good way to get a group together for a study party outside," says Cathy M. Dale '90. The Matthews Hall resident took advantage of yesterday's sunny weather to use her box in Harvard Yard for just that purpose...