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Aboard the Constitution, the Navy's oldest commissioned warship, the Navy's oldest officer on active duty retired last week. In 1943 Grace Murray Hopper, then an associate professor of mathematics at Vassar College, joined the reserves, and while developing an early computer program, coined one of computerese's most useful terms when she found a moth in the machine. "From then on," she recalled, "whenever anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it." After the war, told she was too old for active duty, she went to work on UNIVAC, the first large commercial...
Schroeder's death marked the end of a valiant struggle for life, but it renewed debate about whether there should be a moratorium on permanent implants of the Jarvik-7 heart. Though Schroeder lived a record 620 days -- almost a third longer than Artificial Heart Recipient Murray Haydon, who died in June -- it was a seesaw survival that mixed moments of triumph with stretches of pain and anguish for both him and his family. "It's incredible how many times he had medical complications that would have finished a normal person," says DeVries...
...beau, and a year later they were married at Pat Weaver's Long Island yacht club. Two ministers, a woman and a man, performed the ceremony. As party favors the guests received washaway tattoos. A bagpipe and bongo drums underscored the service. "It was great fun," says Bill Murray, Weaver's co-star in Ghostbusters. "But then I've never seen Sigourney give a bad party...
Down to Basics. All the action can, of course, obscure the spirit that is being consecrated. Big wedding celebrations may have something to do with what Rabbi Murray I. Rothman of West Newton, Mass., calls "a resurgence of family feeling--and I consider the temple an extended family." Michael L. Bradley, executive secretary of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, wonders whether the resurgence "is religious or cultural. I'm inclined to think the catalyst may be cultural." And part of the consumer culture, at that. Many department stores now have computerized bridal registries and, reports Margaret McMillen of Bullocks Wilshire...
...marketplace, speediness became an ever stronger selling point. The first mass-marketed instant coffee, the G. Washington brand, appeared in 1909. The next year Florist's Transworld Delivery started sending flowers by wire. The spirit of hustle permeated pop culture, from the World War II-era song lyric, "Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry," to the Road Runner cartoon character who always leaves Wile E. Coyote in the dust...