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Gaddafi remains generally popular in Libya, but he has become increasingly isolated; he once wandered freely among the people but now usually stays out of sight (and rifle shot). He seldom sleeps in the same house two nights in a row, and his movements are random. When he does appear in public, he often poses and struts for the cameras in an impeccably tailored military uniform, true to his own statement of what his regime is all about: "The strong always rule...
PRACTICING HISTORY makes no attempt to prove a thesis: a random collection of essays on a random collection of topics, it rambles over almost 50 years. Yet Tuchman is a purist of sorts, and the freshness of her vision shines through. The book is a product of this vision. It speaks eloquently for a brand of history many historians seem to have forgotten...
...make matters worse, Japanese companies, including Hitachi, Nippon Electric and Fujitsu, are charging headlong at TI's semiconductor supremacy. They have already captured about 70% of the market for one new advanced chip, the 64K RAM (for random access memory), which can store 65,536 separate bits of information and is expected to become one of the most widely used pieces of computer hardware. TI last summer abandoned another information-storage technology, called the magnetic bubble memory, because it never caught on with enough computer makers. The company had invested more than $50 million to develop the bubble memory...
Some scientists believe that the current flurry of cheating cases is nothing more than what they call an anomaly, a random quirk in the regular flow of events. But as canny researchers have long known, anomalies are often the first clue to some deeper discovery. For that reason alone, it may well be in the scientific community's interests to look more closely at the recent examples of ethical lapses...
...frustrating or intimidating the reader. A favorite theme seems to be the middle-aged protagonist grappling with the leftover complications of long-ago some adventure that ripped the fabric of a conventional life: a successful businessman, whom the CIA drugged with LSD 20 years ago as a random experiment, throws himself into the public eye by suing the government for his life's subsequent turmoil; a Vietnam veteran, past 30, goes to Florida to watch the filming of a T.V. documentary about his sensational escape from prison camp a decade before. Or the pattern is inverted in "Some Straight Numb...