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...chairs and sofas are upholstered in what resembles fake monkey fur, and the grass-green shag carpeting that covers both floor and ceiling makes such an acoustically perfect room that Elvis recorded eight hits here for his last album, Moody Blue. The yellow-and-blue TV room sports three built-in sets mounted side by side. Elvis was aping the three sets in the Oval Office. The excess prompted one Reeboked grandmother to pronounce, "It's a killer...
...technically-oriented curriculum which can become a real grind for most students," Shibley said. "Going to the hockey games is a good release and because of the active involvement in the sport of hockey here, RPI has a student body with a built-in knowledge of the sport...
...with humans, a computer needs to be more than the sum of its hardware and software and metal skin. The most successful machines have a built-in emotional component, something that connects the tools in the computer with the whims of its user. Perhaps no one understands this better than Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer and the man who made the personal computer a household term. In the three years since he was forced out of Apple, the dreamer behind the Apple II and the Macintosh has been trying to do it again -- to create out of silicon...
...biggest surprise is the computer's built-in disk drive. Rather than rely on standard floppy disks, Next comes equipped with an erasable magneto-laser disk built by Canon and controlled by a proprietary chip. The 5 1/4-in. disk, which will be the first of its kind to come to market in the U.S., slips in and out of the computer like a floppy, but holds 256 megabytes -- more data than 300 IBM PC or Macintosh disks. As if to underscore the massive storage capacity this represents, Next's disk comes loaded with software programs, operating instructions and four...
After moving into the White House, Mrs. Reagan converted Amy Carter's bedroom into a spacious walk-in closet to house her extensive wardrobe, according to one former White House official. This source says the room, roughly 10 ft. by 15 ft., has held hundreds of dresses in built-in cabinets along all four walls. Each dress is labeled with the occasions on which it was worn, apparently so Mrs. Reagan can avoid displaying it again in front of the same audience...