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Far from being the totalitarian state depicted by State Department spokesmen, these professors and administrators describe Nicaragua as a beleaguered country engaged in a noble experiment but threatened by U.S. backed invaders. Should Nicaragua be forced to fight for its survival, the professors say, it may well become a military...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Harvard and Nicaragua | 9/26/1984 | See Source »

...another front, the University will continue to experiment with personal computers in a number of courses. In Computer Sciences, the Macintosh will be used in Computer Science 11, "computers, Algorithms, and Programs." As in the past, an experimental section of Expository Writing will utilize IBM computers, and for the first time an experimental section of Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," will utilize personal computers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slipping Into the Computer Age | 9/22/1984 | See Source »

Years ago, Anderson would send his balloons about 140,000 feet up and then drop packages of measuring instruments by parachute, allowing them to take readings of the chemical composition in the air as they hurtled back to earth. Anderson says that although the experiments yielded useful information, the results...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Up, Up and Away | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

The burning question was not whether a unity government would work−Israel had such a government from 1967 to 1970−but whether this one would be strong enough to deal with the urgent problems facing the country. Even Peres sounded only partly convincing when he noted guardedly, "It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Unity at Last | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Airfone is hardly the first such experiment. Since the late 1940s, numerous systems, some of them versions of two-way radio, have been tested, but they were of poor quality and limited range. Private and corporate aircraft have long been licensed for radio telephones, but they require special operators, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Frequent Flyers, Call Home | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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