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Hard facts fail to get 'soft walls' installed
of the Sentinel StaffIf you want to understand the debate about "soft walls" and concrete retaining walls in auto racing, think about bullets. If a bullet hits a hard surface at a slight angle -- say, 20 degrees -- it ricochets; that means the energy is channeled in...Tags: Championship Racing Teams, Metal and Mineral, Indianapolis 500, Vehicles, NASCAR
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Happy Birthday, Hal
HAL, the petulant, malfunctioning computer of"2001: A Space Odyssey,"is about to have a birthday. But he won't be around to celebrate it. "We haven't made him yet," said Roy Campbell, a computer science professor at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-...
Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Colleges and Universities
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