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...last few years, that all-important element of my morning routine, the toasted slice bread, has met with more abuse that Caspar Weinberger at a Harvard Forum. Innocent slices of ordinary commercial bread are slowly baking drier than the University plans to make this campus. And all by a gleaming chrome technological fiasco with an industrial-size plug that looks like it was salvaged from one of the early electric chairs...
...self-confident government scholar to go off to the Kennedy School and attack problems of waste and inefficiency in this great country after showing him the impossibility of lightly browning some American Wonder Bread, which he must then discard with impunity...
After choosing a line of attack, Oracle switches control to a separate unit called Searcher. Designed by Carl Ebeling, a Carnegie-Mellon graduate student, and manufactured under a Defense Department grant, Searcher is a bread-box- size device that contains 64 special-purpose microprocessors. Each is assigned & to one square of the chessboard. When a piece lands on a particular square, the microchip dedicated to that square determines the likely outcomes. Operating at peak speeds, the 64 chips can evaluate more than 175,000 positions per sec., or 30 million in the 3 min. allowed for each move of tournament...
...only thing we have trouble with is minnows. Night crawlers, crawfish, goldfish, leeches--they're all pretty tough. But with minnows, after seven days we have about a 50% loss. We try to get those minnows out of there before that happens and rejuvenate 'em, same as you would bread or potato chips...
...fiscal prudence. Government budget cuts have led to increased unemployment and poverty, which in turn has sparked anger and unrest. Last August more than 100,000 labor union members paraded through downtown Buenos Aires to protest the government's compliance with IMF austerity measures. Read one giant banner: PEACE, BREAD, WORK AND TO HELL WITH...