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...week's end authorities could only hope that more victims would not turn up. They were worried, too, that the cyanide murders would encourage a new, over-the-counter terrorism that could be aimed at companies or random individuals. Already this year, someone tampered with eyedrops and nasal sprays sold in Los Angeles; at least ten people suffered burns, but no one died. The frightening truth, says FDA Deputy Commissioner Mark Novitch, is that there is no way to protect the public from people who do such things. - By Susan Tifft...
...flood of messages disguised as valuable information, most of which is trivial and irrelevant to any substantive concern. This is the elite's equivalent of junk mail, but many educators can't see through it because they are not sufficiently educated to deal with such random complexity." To many experts, the computer seems a symbol of both the problem and its solution. "What the computer has done," according to Stephen White of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...
Thursday. Tried to convince myself that all this darting observation and febrile sensitivity of Woolf's is getting boring. Lost the argument by opening to a page at random. She says of Henry James' prose: "His pounce & grip & swing always spring fresh upon me." Ditto with her. The literary portraits alone are worth the price: Huxley, Rebecca West, old Shaw and Yeats, T.S. Eliot ("hard, spry, a glorified boy scout in shorts & yellow shirt. . . settling in with some severity to being a great...
...negative side, miy respondents, who composed 16 percent of random sample, consistently described Harvard less glowing terms than their white classma. Only two-thirds said they had been satisfied amically, for example...
...primitive semiconductors were first mass-produced in the 1950s. Now that supremacy is being threatened by a formidable and frightening competitor: Japan. Last year Japanese companies, led by Hitachi, Fujitsu and Nippon Electric, captured 70% of the world market for a new, advanced chip called the 64K RAM (for random access memory) that is expected to become the biggest-selling semiconductor product by 1985. This chip can store 65,536 separate bits of data, or four times the capacity of the 16K RAM, which until recently was the industry standard. For U.S. chipmakers, who have watched the Japanese cripple...