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...batteries, [and] weighs less than 2 lbs. ... A language- translating computer. Built by IBM, it translates Russian into English. Its first assignment: translating each day's Pravda for the Air Force. It works at a rate of 1,800 words per minute, turns out rough but readable English ... The pace of research is such that man's next great discovery may come next month, next week--or tomorrow...
Shareholders might wonder if they are anything more than an afterthought. News' stock has been rising--but not fast enough for a company projected to grow earnings at twice the industry pace, says Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen. She calls the stock grossly undervalued. News recently left Australia to incorporate in the U.S., where it will be added to the prestigious S&P 500 stock index next month. That's giving it a boost. But Murdoch's plan for his two thirtysomething sons to succeed him remains a drag on the stock. Adding weight to the anchor: since Malone...
...days and weeks ahead of us," Goss's Nov. 15 e-mail read, "I will announce a series of changes, some involving procedures, organization, senior personnel and areas of focus for our action. I understand that it is easy to be distracted by both the nature and the pace of change. I am confident, however, that you will remain deeply committed to our mission. The American people and the President on their behalf, expect nothing less." --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Matthew Cooper, Elaine Shannon and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...billionth of a second old, it briefly went through a period of supercharged expansion, ballooning from the size of a proton to the size of a grapefruit (and thus expanding at many, many times the speed of light). Then the expansion slowed to a much more stately pace. Improbable as the theory sounds, it has held up in every observation astronomers have managed to make...
...turnovers between the two games have made it very difficult for Harvard to keep pace on the scoreboard. The team is shooting 44.2 percent from the field while holding its opponents to only 35.4 percent shooting, a marked improvement over last year’s numbers—39.4 percent and 46.6 percent, respectively...