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When he broke the tape. 8:02,4 after he began the race, he had smashed the school record by over 10 seconds...
...ugly yellowish color when Dr. William DeVries finally cut it loose, tore it out of the Mercurochrome-stained chest cavity, and put it to one side. For the next three hours, while a nearby heart-lung bypass machine kept the unconscious patient alive?and while a tape in the background eerily played Mendelssohn and Vivaldi?DeVries' sure hands carefully stitched into place a grapefruit-size gadget made of aluminum and polyurethane. At 12:50 p.m. last Monday, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart newly sewn inside William J. Schroeder began beating steadily, 70 beats to the minute. When Schroeder opened...
Selection itself is no proof of bias, it is merely a necessity: the millions of words a newspaper receives must be reduced to the thousands it prints; hours of tape must be fitted to the time constraint of a half-hour news program. The bias, if there is one, is less apt to be in ideology than in choosing what will most interest the audience or document the thesis the journalist has found in the material...
Many first-generation hackers, having struggled with the red tape that surrounded million-dollar systems in the early days of computing, tended to view such things as copy-protection schemes, which make it difficult to steal programs, as barriers to the free flow of information. Other hackers, however, protested that anyone who spends thousands of hours writing a program deserves to earn royalties on it. Said Robert Woodhead, co-author of a best-selling game called Wizardry: "My soul is in my product...
...audio pleasures are continually accosted by WHRB's signal. The WHRB broadcast comes in as background music to any radio station, record, or tape that we try to listen to on our stereos. The tunes from the top of Holyoke Center (where WHRB's) antenna is) even invade our television and toaster oven...