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Some 300 supercomputers now work at tasks as diverse as ferreting out oil deposits, analyzing muscle structures and creating special effects for Hollywood films. With the spread of supercomputer networks, high-speed computing power is available to anyone with a personal computer and a telephone hookup. "The world will never be the same," says Doyle Knight, director of the John von Neumann National Computer Center in Princeton, N.J. "Soon every industry, every science, every walk of life will in some way be touched by supercomputing...
Dole's mood darkened as soon as the New Hampshire outcome became clear. Just as victory had seemed to liberate him, defeat sent him reverting to his old caustic persona. During a television hookup with Bush Tuesday night, Dole was asked by NBC's Tom Brokaw whether he had anything to say to the Vice President. "Yeah," Dole snarled as he glowered into the camera. "Stop lying about my record...
Dukakis' young campaign workers last fall tried another campaign technique. Gross says college students helped create the first-ever satellite conference in a presidential election when Dukakis addressed students in 56 colleges in 25 states via a satellite hookup last November...
While working in 1983 as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago probing corruption, Turow okayed the wiring of a Miami attorney turned informant. The hookup recorded conversations between the lawyer and a client then on trial in an unrelated case. This, declared the court, was "reprehensible." Currently in private practice, Turow angrily insists -- with the support of Chicago's U.S. Attorney -- that his decision was both proper and approved by higher-ups. The denouement to this real tale of tattle will take months to unwind...
...monthly American Lawyer showed 20 firms this year with gross revenues of $100 million- plus. Two years ago, just five were in that elite. The leader, 840-lawyer Skadden, Arps, had gross revenues of around $228 million. With offices in eight cities, its weekly partnership lunches require an audio hookup to link conference rooms...