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Many unusual propositions have been debated in U.S. state legislatures, but a new climax of sorts may have been reached in Oklahoma last week as representatives pondered the notion of a consumer protection code for sex. The idea came from Representative Cleta Deatherage, 27, who argued vigorously that men should be required to obtain written consent from women before engaging in intercourse, and that women, before granting such consent, should receive a warning about the risks of pregnancy and the health dangers of childbirth. Her proposal was a protest amendment tacked on to an antiabortion bill before the legislature...
...world's most egalitarian societies. Thanks to sharply progressive taxes, the earnings ratio between the highest-and lowest-paid citizen is now 9 to 1, down dramatically from about 100 to 1 at the time of independence from Britain 16 years ago. A strict "leadership code" bars most civil servants from drawing more than one salary, owning rent-producing property, or riding around in limousines. Nyerere's own life-style must surely be one of the simplest of any chief of state; he is paid only $6,000 annually, and lives in a very modest beach house outside...
Scientists do not know how an overdose of L-dopa kills the cancerous cells, but Wick suggested in the Science article that the chemical may inhibit the copying process of DNA, the code of life necessary for new cells to form and grow. Wick believes that an excessive amount of L-dopa may inactivate the key chemical needed for putting together copies...
Input. This section translates information from a variety of devices into a code that the computer understands. In Babbage's scheme, the manual turning of counters or use of punched cards provided the input...
...result of a refinement proposed in the 1940s by the Hungarian-born mathematical genius John von Neumann. After seeing ENIAC, he suggested "writing" both the data to be handled by the computer and the instructions for doing the job in the same memory and using the same code. It was a key innovation in computer theory, for it meant that the machine could cope with instructions just as if they were data. As Texas Instruments' William C. Holton explains, "A program can therefore alter another program or even itself...