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The California Tech VOLUME CI, NUMBER 29 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JUNE 2,2000

HELP MOVE A

CHILD HIGHER

BY V IKKI KOWAI.SKI

Many of liS have reached the point of the terrn where we don't want to think about anything exce pt ollr SllmlTle r. (So me SOIllC of LI S. of course. reached that point a bit sooncr than oth­ers. )

Since we're all thinkin g about it , ami many orus will be around here for SURFs, TIf)E's or sUlllll1erjobs, I'd like to Illention an interest in g idea for SUIlHner vo luntce ring (a nd which could also very well carryon into next year). "Move A Child Hi gher" (MACII) is a handicapped ridin g program at Flintridge Stables (conveniently located ri ght next to JPL), and can al­ways usc volunteers for a vari ­

Kipfest to honor top physicist HY EUSA IlETIl ADAMS

Kip Thorne. the well-kn ow n Cal tech astrophysicist and au­tilor of several famous books on physics, is turning 60. In recog­nition of thi s, Caltech has ar­ranged a three day sy mposium to "honor his long and distin­gui shcd career in physics, and al so 10 honor his comrnitment to and aehicvements in the com­rnunication and popularization of scicnce." The festivities in­c lude a banquet Friday ni ght at thc Atheneum and culminate in a full day of lectures in Bcckmen Auditorulll on Saturday.

the a ll day Saturday program wi II be two science writers: Timothy Ferris, author of best­selling books sllch as The Whole

Shehall!? and Comillg of Age ill th e Milky Way, and

Thorne, who is the reynman Professor of Theoretical Astro­physics, received his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1962. He leff for a few years to cam a Ph .D. at

Prin cc ton but returned as an Asso­ciate Profes­sor in 1967 and has heen he re ever since. Hi s work has 1'0-CllS on gra vi­tation phys­ics and as ­trophysi cs. Along with R. W. P . Dreve r and R. Wei ss, he was the co-

Thorn e's ho o ks are we ll known to several gCI1l~ ra tion s or physicists and ph ys ic,,, stu cic: llI s. somc of w hOIll credi I I hem IV i I h first piquin g the ir int eres t in physi cs (even thou gh mudl of the advanced gra vi tation weill ovcr their hcacb ), C;rll\ ·il(llioll.

publi shed in 197.) with John A. Wheeler ,lIld Charles W. Mi sner. is rega rded as one or the c la ss ic sc ientific books on genc: ral re la­tivit y oralltimc. More rl~cc lltl y.

Thorne wrole the hcs t-,se lln IJl(l ck !wll's (11/(1 lilll(, II ' {/f '!!S:

fillstt' ill \ ' o/llrllgcolf,l' 1" goeL ,I fa sc inating hi story or the P;I SI

cen tury in re lati vity whi ch rl~ ­

ce ivcd rave re views rrom sc icn­ti sts and thl: gencral publi c alik e.

ety or tasks. This is a program that does

make an important difference. Riding a horse exercises many of the same muscles as walking, and it provides children who arc

Kipfest, as the cvent is billed, . wi II feature scveral rcnowned scienti sts, including Stephen Hawking, Thorne's long time co lleague, friend , and betting partner; Igor Novikov, head of thc Theoretical Astrophy sics Center of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physic s, in Copenhagen; and Kip Thorne himself. Filling out the rest of

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Li ghtrnan, a novel ist and sc nior phys­ics lecturer at MIT. The lec­ture,s will eve ntually form the nucl eus for a book . Th ere will also he an appearance by Lynda Will­Iams , the "Phy s ics Chanteuse. " (For a sam ­pling of her

founder of Thorne: Caltech alum, prot(~s,wr the LIGO

Althou gh the ea rl y-admission tickets for Caltcc h! JPL st;tll f:1 C­

ulty, and studCllt s, have all been claimed, ae/Illission withoUitiek­ets on a space-ava ilable basi s will hegin Saturday at 9:30 a.m.

unique music,

and world-renowned physicist Pro j e c t ,

which is de- For more information visit http://www.events .caltec h .edu! kipfesCbtml.

visit http://www.entcrsci.com/ pchant.html.)

signed to detect gravitation waves.

too crippled to walk a way to de- I-------------------------::------r-------;-----=_------------:--velopthesemusclesandprcvent AMa gets computational Simulant Incorporated atrophy. Horse riding also has a

calming effect on other sorts of ematics. T L J __ . . ~ J . L h'-h kids and provides somcthing for HY JUSTIN KAO CM unueroraauate COm1>na1J sets SttTtJts to;

Are there other changes in A _ 6' - T"J 6' 6' them to focus on. In countries A d' t . along wl'th the new n,·lme'l. AI-s everyone nee IIlg 0 regls-such as Germany, "theraputic ter for AMa 95 next year un- though the name change is riding" is a regular part oftradi- doubtedly noticed, Applied largely following previous tional therapy programs for chil- Mathematics has a middle name. changes in the department, the dren and adults alike . The AMa department is now graduate curriculum is being

Personally, I find it just won- Applied and Computational updated and revamped as well. derful to take a break, "get out," Mathematics, reflecting the in- Future ACM grad students will and work with horses and little . f . I ' th leave C',llteeh havl'ng taken two creaslllg use 0 . numenca me -kids. Mostofthe volunteer work ods in math as applied to science year-long numerical analysis involves leading horses around and engineering. According to classes, designed to provide a while children are riding (al- ACM executive officer Oscar foundation for scientific com­though this usually assumes Bruno, the name change is sim- puting. Although other compo­some prior experience with ply following the changes that nents of the curriculum have horses) or walking alongside to have taken place in the depart- also changed, Bruno empha­make sure the children stay in ment over the last several years. sized that the requircments are the saddle . The last time [went "Many more things can he done still evolving and changes will

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with a computcr now than 30 be ongoing even after the fall years ago ... [the name change] catalog is published. lets people know of this aspeel." So whilt does thi s mean for [n a way, notcd Bruno, the undergrads? Likc itor not,AMa

change to ACM is a result of 95 still exists, now by the name changes across all of science and ACM 95. As far othcr options enginecring, which are inereas- go, nothing has changed- ACM ingly rc lying on computers to 95 will be exactly the sallie as so lvc problerns by simulation. AMa 95. Undergrad AMa Illa­The co mputation it se lf, how- jars will want to tak e note ever, is al so a prohlem. one re- though: ACM 101 will not be the tjuiring the application of math - sa me as AMa 10 I. However. elllatica ll y rigorous algorilhms according tn Bruno, the under­drawn frorn analytical tec h- graduatc requirementsw ill proh­niques dcveloped by ll1<lthema- ab ly be large ly th e sa me, as ti c ians over the ce nturi es. In Illuch as is possihle given the re­other words, the computational shufflin g or c lasses invol vi ng rnethods require applied lI1ath- grad sludellt s.

BY MONA SHEIKH

Yet another Caltech start -up company is heing readied to take the business world by storm. Simulant Inc. is a soft­ware company jointly founded hy undergraduates Michael Hochberg (sophomore), Tom Baehr-Jones Uunior), and Pro­fessor Axel Scherer, of Phys­ics, Applied Physics and Elec­trical Engineering.

This year it was the recipi­ent of the Caltech CNSE (Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering) Prize, which is awarded to winn ers of the annllal Caltech 10K Business Plan competition.

Last summer, when Physics majors Ilochherg and Bachr-

Jones want cd to pe rfo rm simulations of phownic crys­tals, they realized that the fi ­nite difference tim e domain (FDTD) simulation they wanted to do would require a sllpercomputer to run it be­cause of speed and memory considerations. Since pur­chasing one would prove ex­tremely impractical , they in­stead design ed and wrote a distributed implementation of FDTD, which would allow the simulations to run on a clus­ter of inexpensive computers.

Two clusters have since been huilt on campus to run Sirnulant 's software . One has eight computers , while th e othcr has thirty -two. each o r

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ASCIT Election Results 'Resu(ts if Student 'Erect ions if 'Jv1ay 24, 2000

<!Class <!&ffircrs The prorests are all resolved now for the class offi cer elections and ASCIT

The race ror senior class pres ident was decided after a redi stribution or the NO votcs. I !ere and in the other officer races, AM = absolute majority = ( I 12)*(num­ber of non-abstaining ballots cast) + ( 1/2)* (error). ABS = abstain, W = write-in .

Ballots cas t: 65

bylaw amendment referenda held last week (nor that there we re any offi­cia l ones), and the long-awaited nu­merical results are now availab le.

COMMER IY ES NEWASKAR NO A[3S W AM II 5 2R 15 5 33 12 5 3 1 12 5 27 Bailors cas t per house:

So Puncct Ncwaskar wins. The el ecti on for senior class vice-president. which had only one human candidate, was decided on the first count:

DALY 4 1

NO 15

ABS W R

AM 33

Ullsurpr isin gly, Dan Daly won this one, making both of th is year's junior class offi cers nex t year's sen ior class officers.

The election rorjlln ior class president went through three redistributions before a winner could be declared. There were no write- ins, and R7 ballots in all.

BUSTOS GUPTA HEFFNER STURGEON NO A[3S AM 22 20 2 1 14 R 2 43 22 20 2 1 15 9 40 24 29 22 12 38 27 32 28 30

The new junior class president is Dinkar Gupta. His vice-president, Sam Yeager, won on the first count:

CROSBY SHANNON YEAGER 10 44

NO 18

ABS W 5 I

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The amendments are easier to count, since there aren't any of these redistributions to do. This time, the absolute majority is two-thirds of the non-abstaining ba llots plus two­th i rds of the error.

Amendment I. Directors at Large. Amendment 3. Call ing hack past BoC reps.

HOUSE YES NO ABS HOUSE YES NO ABS

Blacker 26 7 5 Blacker 32 3 3

Dahney 3 4 I Dabney 4 4 0

Fleming 31 5 11 Fleming 33 11 3

Lloyd 16 2 2 Lloyd 16 4 0

Pagc 17 27 16 Page 3 55 2

Ri cketts 12 8 R Ricketts 13 13 2

Ruddock 30 6 9 Ruddock 34 9 2

TOTAL 135 59 52 TOTAL 135 99 12

AM = 132, so the amendment passes. AM = 158, so the amendment fa i Is.

Amendment 2. Movies Chair. Amendment 4. Dismissa l of a [3oC rep judged

I-lOUSE YES NO ABS by peers to be biased.

Blacker 22 10 6 HOUSE YES NO ABS

Dabney 3 4 I Blacker 23 12 3

Flemin u 35 2 10 Dabney I 7 0 b Fleming 23 2 1 3

Lloyd IR 0 2 Page 18 26 16 Lloyd 17 3 0

Ricketts 12 7 9 Page 3 57 0

Ruddock 29 8 R Ricketts 6 22 ()

TOTAL 137 57 52 Ruddock 28 14 3

AM = 132, so the amendment passes . TOTAL 101 136 9 AM = 160, so the amend ment rail s.

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there (only the sccondtimc I' ve actually managed to), I was feel­ing co ntented hy the time r was ready to go hack. I thought it was ac tuall y more like therapy for mc !

You can even get paid $ 12-$ 15 an hour by the Y if you have fed­eral work/s tud y. The Y is very

eager to pay volunteers for their time. and is ready to pay for any volunteer work you may want to do for a non-profit organ iza­ti on. Currently, a great deal of t.he work it pays for is done at the hospital and the Huntington .

POI' more information . vis it MACH I 's webpage at http :// www.rnoveachildhigher.org. or contact Joy Rittenhouse by e­mail at jOYl1lach I (iilyahoo.com or hy phone at (62() 7<)8-1 222 .

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Minutes of th e i\SCIT BoD Meet ing May :10, 2000

Present : BoO; Guests: K;-t cie Shelton, Gustavo Joseph , Rory Sayres. Ayeh Randeh-A hlll'ldi . IIji e Kim , Nate Austin . Da ve Gus~in

Meet ing ca lled to order at 10:25 pm .

Guests Kac ic picks up the ehec k for the i\nime Club to buy Pokemon.

Jalllr()om - Sean writes Rory a check for th e Jamro om. He cumes to ask us to approve the new .J'IITlroolll head he Wi.l ll lS 10 ;-tppoint : Peter Pla vc han, a jun­ior from Ruddock. The I30D is also currently working on a Jmnroo m reso lution to outline the spec i fics of appointing a new head. Rory suggest s offerin g some compellsatioll , since being a .lamroorn head in vo lves a lot of work with little recognition (much like being an ASCIT of­ficer).

Totem - IIj ie and Ayeh request more money for publishing the Totem thi s year ($200) . They would like to put in more color pages and print more copies (450. up from 300 last year). Since they asked them niccly, the GSC and the Alullmi Asso­ciation are al so givin g thern fundin g. whi ch will make the Totem ava ilable to grad students and faculty. They are printing th e ir publi ca tion throu g h Graphic Art s. IIjie also requests the honus she did not receive for fini shing the Totem on time last yea r.

"The Totem is a publica ti on that will actuall y get publi shed!" -IIj ie. Ow. low blow for Mr. Pub­lications!

little t - Dave and Nate show olT their nifty publi shing contract for the 2000-200 I littl e t. They will be printing 1200 copi es, enough for the current fros h (w ho desperately need one). ne xt yea r's frosh, and all the undergrad s, plus a few extras. Nate run s off to ma~e us a copy of the co ntract on the i\SCIT copier. The BoD unanimousl y approves it.

Dolphins - Nate's dolphins are still perpetually jumping over Millikan Rridge. Nate has talked to Chri s I3rennan ahout possibly hanging the dolphins in a more permanent locat ion, such as in the Arhlet i.· Center, for futJlre generat ions to enjoy. The RoO bugs Nate about adopting an ASCIT dolphin . lie st,1Its talk­in g about how ASCIT didn't re­ally give him very llluch money and about how he wants to keep the set together, so baSica lly we are denied! To show that there are no hard feelings, Sean gives him hi s $ 100 of i\SCIT dolphin fundin g.

Formal - Gustavo, the official photographer for last weekend's ASCIT Formal. comes in to show us two binders full of pic­ture." olle or culor pictures alld the other of hlack-and-w hite. He did nn aweSOllle job, taking a good number of both posed and candid shots. Melinda was very photogenic that evening. The bi nders wi II be on display at the Red Door Ca fe, where people ca n browse throu gh them and pick out the ones they would like to order ($ 1 for the first picture and about $ 1.50 for e;-tch addi­tional one) . Full details will be posted at the Red Door. Melinda will email the list of Furmal at­tendees to let them know.

General Meeting

Martha-Helene suggests letting the Athletic Department take over the athletic awards, includ­ing the ordering of the letters. This would dec rease the Ath Man's job to practically nothing. L.:ri c would still like ASCIT to be so mewhat in vo lved , espe­cially since ASCIT would still be subsidi zing p;-t lt of the cost of the varsity jackets. The BoO unanimously approves to draft a reso lution about this.

ARC - Emma placed the trophy orders for the ASC IT Teaching i\wards. She' ll pick them up to­murrow. The date of t.he hanquet has a lso been fin nli zed. L.:rnm:l will be the MC of the event. She will also get the IHe to promote th e frosh student ad viso r pru­granl.

Laura report s that the current CLUE editors wuuld like to fin­ish what they' ve started. The BoD is eoncerncd about it not heing finishecl 0 11 ~d)cdllie . Eric says that if the email s (request­ing submi ss ions) arc not sent by the week after classes end, Laura and Chris wi II take over.

Eric is writ ing a few letters to incoming frosh. One is for the frosh student advisor program and the other is the traditional introductory letter by the ASCIT President.

The BoD will be having lunch at the Athenaeum on Thursday, .Tune I.

The Ca lt cch Di scordian Klub (C DK ) is requesting their entire yea r's funding now because they need it to buy equi pment. The I30D approves (6-0- 1) with the stipulation that if the club di s­bands by the end of the fi sea l year. ASCIT will rece ive their equipm e nt (o r a mon etary equivalent ).

The HoD approves to give the Totem the $200 they asked for (6- 1- 1). Meghan point s out that they should have told us much earlier so that we could have al­located the appropriate nmount i1t the Budget Meeting. We also

give IIjie $50 as a bonus for her work on the Totem last yea r.

On a side note, Gurt Heffner is good at sc hmooz ing. I Ie was ahle to pull in enough fundin g to balance the Formal's budget. He's our go- to guy ( l ik e Shaquille O'Neal is to the Lak ­ers) for gett ing ASCIT Formal funding.

Marth a- He lene will se nd an emai l to the new club li st 10 re­mind them to send in the ir man­datory new club reports (one per term ror the first year). She will also send a rcrninder emailtoa ll the clubs to request Ihe ir fund ­ing forthis term, if they ha ven' t done so alrl:ady.

Meghan sent out an ellla i I re­ce ntl y to th e publi cati o ns peopl e. as~ing them to submit their co mpensa ti on schedules and to give their first report to ASC IT. She's still w;-t iting for res punses. Meg han's projec t over the SlIlllmer will be to ~r ll

the ASCIT va n.

Jason needs to update the by laws on the ASCIT web page to rc­flect the results from last week's e lection. It will also have the new reso lutions as soon as the BoD fini shes writing them up.

The BoD is working on the fol ­low ing list of resolutions. (Eric goes throu gh the m quickly, amidst flying basketballs and running Frosh directors.)

Jamroom - The new JamfOom head will be appoint ed at the ad vice of the current head ntthe sa me time as the other e lected offices and the te rm of o ffi ce will begin third term. The head will be offered a compensation of $ 100.

Duties of the Directors-at-Large - The Frosh Directur-at -Large will he in charge of the Budget Meeting, UROII (which should co me out in Janu ary. Martha­Helene will start working on it over the summer) and will be the Club Coordinator/Linison. The Upperclass Director-at-Large will be in charge of the ASC[T

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Copier and wi ll be the Publi ca­ti ons Director.

Movie Chair - 'rh~ Mnvil' Chair will ha ve alilhe duties Ihat weI'':: in the bylaws bci'ore Ihe ,1Incnd ­ment , plus c,)re of the DVD Li­brary and Screcning Room.

Donut Man - The Donllt Man i., and will a lways be the official supplier of ASC IT Douut s. Pc'­ri od .

i\thletics - Cont ro l (If til.:: ",va rds will go to the Alh lGti c Din.:dor (currcntl y Tim DO lV ns).

The BoD (omes LIp with ;1 li st of clos ing t;lsKs for Ihi s Yl', lr: -Take care of the i\SC IT 1)Vi)

Libr:Jr y/Sl'J'l~c Jli" g ROUlli -Cleil n LIp ti ll: i\SC IT Of ri ce ks­pec iall y the old food ' ) - Start the Web Project (Linln1 and Chri s)

Sean lV ili be in contac t hy c lllaii and sna il mail over the Stllillner. ,iust in case any clwch nenl In be writt (;; n, IIl"lI wri te th l'm up and mail th l~ rn to Laura ror ap­prov,d.

On a sad note, Me lind ;l an ­nounces that she will be leaving for Eng land nex t January to study abroad. We' II Illiss her ,1Ilel her awesome soc ial directing.

The BoD will meet so metime before Rotation nex t year, but the date and time are still be de­cided . Stay tuned on the ASCIT web page ( http:// www.its .cn ltech .edu / - ;) ,c it ).

As the ir fin a l act thi s sc hoo l year, the BoD unanimously ap­proves Peter Plavchan as the new Jamroo m head , ci'fec ti ve i mmcd i ,ltci y.

hnal meeting of the yea r ad­journs al 12:04 am. BUllhe beal goes on ...

Respectfull y submitted,

Jason C. Ca rdema

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News and Reviews Adam Villani, Media Guy June 2, 2000

The Lower Depths

My co-work er Dave Barton's latest production (for hi s Rude Guerri Ii a Theater Cornpany) is hi s own modcrn adaptati on of acc laimed Ru ss ian play wri ght Max im Gorky's '{he Lower DCIHhs, ::t se, lring, take-no-prisoners loo k at a group of desti-1I11e fl ophouse res idcnt s struggling aga inst their abusive re li ­g ious hypoc rite of 11 landlord . Gorky's charac te rs are not with ­out hope, hut he avo ids roman lic izing them, preferring instead to ex pose audi ences to the endkss cycle ofc rirnc, a lcoho li sm, ;Jnd misfo rlu nl: thill traps the indi gen t in pove rt y. Barton wo rked frorn An ton Chck hov's notes on improvi ng the dra­m:ltic stru c tul-e. whil e a lso subs tant iall y Ill ode rni zi ng and /\IllLTica niz ing the 1902 play, addin g unmi staka ble Ba rt on II llll'hes like a dr": lg qucen. copio us alll Ollnts of {'nul language, :Ind a Ino re open representat ion of sex and violence.

There are 16 PL'( )pie in the ensemble cast. and it's remark­;rhk th at they're so dis tinct. Dav id Cramer is perkc tJ y cast as the upti ght, cru e l landlo rd , and Lee Jalube (anoth er co-wo rker of m i nt~) is hi s suitabl y dashing roguish fo il who ri ses to the i'orel'ront of the upr is ing against him . .J a lube 's thi ef. mean­whik . is ca rrying on an 'lIT'lir with the landlord 's sexy, bitchy wi fe (Raqllel Ri ggs) wh o ahuses her wea k hut kindhearted , istcr ( R e~' 111 D' Lyn). Of particul ar note arc David Beatty, who hilS rea ll y found the soul of hi s hard-luck junk man with a dyin g wire. and 14-yca r-old Erin Green, world-weary hut still childlike as a runaway prostitute. Unfortunate ly, with so many characters in a f<l irl y short pl ay, many of them arc well-de­.fined hut not necessarily as we ll -dew·loped . Instead of the characters devt:: loping al ong an are, some see m to instead just fo ll ow a straight downward path.

Whil e it 's true that Gorky 's orig inal structure was antieli­Illacti c, with a rather preachy and une xc iting final act, Barto n's rewrite has gone a little too far in the other directi on, with the c limax (a murder) abruptl y coming mere seconds before the fin a l curtain. Furthermore, for such an ideologica l play, the turning point revolves not around a lhematic issue, but around

the love triangle involving the thief and the landlord's family. The result is that the climactic murder seems more like a plot instrument than an exploration of Gorky 's message. Barton 's adaptation has, indeed, made the murder more purposefullh an in the original, but dramatically it 's still unsati sfyin g. It should be noted that hi s modernizati ons were well-considered, he lp­ing make the pl ay more relevant for a current-day audience .

Structural issues as ide, The {.ower Depths is still worthwhile; the plight of the poor is as re levant in this country today as it was in Tsarist Russ ia . Complementing Dave Barton's master­ful directi on o f hi s ac tors is the fabulous, evoca ti ve Illulti leve l trash-strewn stage, Rude Guerrilla's best set des ign yet: and the intimate confines of th t:: small Empire Theater, as alw.1Ys, he ighten the intensity of the pl ay. The t ml'e r [)cplhs runs th rough Friday. June <), with perfonnanccs Thur., days, F ridays, and Sall1rd ::tys at X:OO P.M. and Su ndays at 2::10 PM . at the Ernpire Theatre, 200 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Ticke ts arc $ 12 general, or $ 1 0 fo r sludent s. Ca ll (7 14)547-4688 for reserva­t ions .

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ITw n who brought you th e shock ingly vio le llt ye t l1linilll ;r\ /lana -ni (FirClvorks) nnw goes me ll ow wit h Kik ll jim, :1 most unusuall.ake on the midcl le-agecJ-lll an-w ith-a-kid buddy movie. Think of it pt:: rhaps as Kitano's Stm iglit SlOr\,. It pl ays almost li ke a parody of Walt er Sa ll es 's Celllral Statiul/ , onl y instead of having a crusty but benign o ld schoo lteacher, the re's an insane, goofy, aggressive loser of a con man (Kitano) taking a kid on a cross-country trip to find hi s mother. This movie should se rve as a rea l test to weed out those who were onl y turned on to the vi olence in Han(/-Bi from those who genuine ly apprec i­ate Kitano's severe yet whimsically ori g inal aesthetic. The re­lationship develops from be ing openl y abusive to one of gellu­ine care, hut the evolution never seerns schlocky. Kitano's char­acter is an interesting study of a man who never really ma­tured. but is abl e neverthe less to reach hi s (iwl1 marginal peace with the work!. There are several ve ry funny scenes, and many more of striking heauty and ereat ivity, all deli vered in the dead­pan " Beat" Takeshi style. ] highly recommend thi s movi e for those who want an extraordinary film going experience.

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Rome, Haly - Th t:: muni cipal council withdrew official and some financial support for the World Gay Pride Festival planned for .July. The ac ti on is probabl y related to the Catholic Church's ongo­ing jubilee ce lebrati on.

Egali, Eritrea - Ethiopia said that it would withdraw from Eritrean territ ory seized over the .Jast three weeks. Peace talks betweenlr-:;t;~S~i;~~~"" the two nati ons opened ' again) on Tuesday.

Miami, Florida - Twelvt:: Cubans on their w::ty to I'lorida in a homemade ship were turned back by the Coast Guard . Twenty-three illegal Cuban immigrants arri ved in Key Wes t on Wedn esday. An d Elian (Jonzakz may finall y be headed home, after the II th Circuit Court of Appeals re jected the pet iti on for po­liti ca l assy lrlill filed on hi s behalf.

Washington , D.C. - A World Bank report slated th:ll . li ving conditions in sub-Saharan Africa have deteriorated ' since the 1960's, the onl y major reg ion of the world where this · has happened. The report blames some of the problem on inept fo r­eign ;rid projects, including those funded by the World Bank itself.

Suva, Fiji - III response to the capture of parlilllent :md several other governillent offi cial s by arilled rebels. Illilitary Ic;rder 13 ainimarama took cont rol of the government. At first, 13ainimarama sa id the Illilit :l ry would relenqui sh powt:: r wh t::n the hostage sililati on w~s resolved. but now says they may remain in power for lip to three years.

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Movie reviews

BY JUSTIN Ho

Mission: Impossiblc-2 (C) By action mov ie standards,

M:I- 2 was rather disappointing a nd g ive n th e la ck of o th er genres in whi ch this film coule! be placed it is lacking in any re­dee ming valu e. Even the first Mission: I! 1I/lossihle had a sec­ond leve l of film-noir ,sophi sti ­ca tion which made it aes thetic in it s ci<lrk way.

The setting lVas punctua ted by bleak European huildings which ,Hid ed it s suspe nseful atm o­sph ere by ,dl ow ing us to eonjlll'c th e Illan y thin gs whi c h ma y have lurked in the background shadows. In contrast, M:I-2 has lost it s ability to surpri se in its recyc ling of gimmicks.

The infiltration o f sec re t buildings via rope suspension fro the ce iling and the over-usc of reali stic masks were novel in 1995, but in four years of ma­turin g, one would ex pec t a g reate r degrees of sophi stica­tion. The answer: ncar-instanta­neous DN A sequencing. a col­o rful in vi vo reso luti on of a cleadly biological agent attac k­in g it host's cell s with bette r qu ality th an an electron micro­graph. and talking petri dishes which send out warning when conditions for the ir inmatcs are un favorable.

Somehow, a mov ie which ac­tuall y enli sts a ge nuine Tom Crui se and not a stunt doubl e in the roc k-sca ling scene sh ould not resort to fall x sc ientific in­struments, though with a media­consuming publi c not as sci ­ence-sav vy as Caltech it's a clev­erl y-fabricatedmeans to prcvent the int roducti on of anything that would he genuinely sc ientific and prolonged.

It 's harcl to put a fin ger on why the DNA scquencing instrument would be a target of more criti ­c ism than. perhaps. thc wildl y unreal amorphous shilpe-shift ­ing capabiliti es of the Termilla ­lor II villain though; just like it's so much bizarre that the co-ex­istence of lemurs and dinosaurs in the Disney mov ie is more ha­rangued than the fact thill they sing and dance.

Sc icntific controversy aside, it's d ifficult to label MI-2 as a good mov ie hecause of the in­abilit y to relate to the charactcrs. Lven the IOVG triangle which de­velops and is a humani zing fGa­ture in the otherwise emotion­less heroic persona s does litt Ie more th a n to po rtr ay Nya h Ha ll (T handi c New ton) as a

the transcendence of Ethan(Tolll Cruise) and Nyah's relationship to the non-pl atonic state and al­though two good people hook­ing up just makes sense it is an­other contrivance. A lack of any cathartic moments prevents the audience for sympathi zing with the characters, so that even whcn Nyah potentially ri sks her life, therc's nothing truly self-sacri­fic ing in the act even though she assert s that her nature is se lf-

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servlllg. It's easier to el icit pathos in

character-changing movies, the coming-of-age talc in Star Wars, for example. Movies which es­peciall y inc lude human weak­nesses and growi ng out of them, 01' obstac les as emotionall y-tax­ing instead of simply physica l barriers are much more success­ful unless there are truly ground­breaking antics or spec ial ef­fects.

Thus , whil e Savillg Private Ryall was technically superb, the ex plic it yearning of Tom Hank's characte r to return to bi s wife and home will be equa lly en­deared.

As an acti on demi god. Tom Cruise as Etban Hulll. is too in­vulnerable. too impersonal to draw sympathy for a truly elno­tional expericnce.

And, as in its James Bond film parallels, thc superficial connec­tion be tween Ethan and Nyah will like ly be severed in the in­terim . In the aftermath of Th e Malrix, Illost films which c laim to ac ti on will also be lacking.

In characte ri stic John Woo fashi on, the ca mera pans the faces of the charac ters with sty­li stic clegance. Slurring some of the ac ti oll sequences becomcs a form of eye candy too, but it is uscd more effect ive ly in lhe fo rmer than latter half of th e mov ie and it also marks a di s­jUllction in the tone of the movie. The beginnin g is imbued with a e uropean chic-ncss an alillost decadent posh. Given the shal ­l ow ne~s of the plot line, it 's a sophi sticat ed dctail. But in the bitter hall'. there's a hastiness to

SmurtL: tt e . the movement s. There is I itt lc to suhstant i,lt e Indeed, the mov ie becomes a

cat and mouse chase, replete with overturnin g motorcycles and exploding SUVs but at this point when the movie has the potential to become most stimu­lating it al so becomes most or­dinary.

Shanghai Noon (8+) Shanghai Noon had the mi s­

fortune of opening in the same weekend as M:I-2 and the addcd di sadvantage of a sour trailer. Perhaps with these sli ghtl y low­ereel expectati ons tbe auelience will be at least mildl y impressed. The acti on hero personas Jack ie Chan and hi s s ideKick. Owen Wil son. assllme arc markedl y diffe rent from th ose in M: I-2. Both e n vis io n th cmse lves greater than their ineptitude pro­hibi t.s. but it is a uni versal long­ing in anyone, which makes it more approachable . And dcspite the slap-s ticky screenpl ay. it is actually a projec t which is fur­ni shed with mu ch wit.

The plot of th e mov ie IS

simplc: to rescue an abducted Chinese princess (a resplendent Lucy Liu) betrothed to an imp­ish emperor from cowboy-domi­nated 1800's A merica. Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) is a mem­ber of the Royal Guarcl , but sent overseas foremost as a porter because of less than exempl ary martial arts. Fate separates him from the res t of the rescue party at whi ch point he assoc iatcs

speed but hi S pro fi Ciency IS stdl very evident. In contrast to pre­vious film s. his in struments of warfare/se lf-defense assume a more traditi onal Chincse char­acter. that is, rope dal1 s. ,word s. and spears as opposed to ladders or sofa chairs.

Still. none of his opponents come d osc to hi s fi ghting abil ­it y. an upper-hand which givcs him the ability to take a less-than se ri ous delliea nor and ex hibit

Jackie Chan has become the quintessenti al self-mocking su­per-hero. Lac k ing in nhsolute Engli sh proficiency, he has becn successful at poking fun at hi s misinteqJretations. Such a target of levity as in the movie would have been a grave disability in the actual historical contex t of the film , but it also introduces those increasingly-noticed hy ­brids of east-west languages and culture.

Jackie Cllal/ sllm t's II ('ro ii's if{ " Silang/w i Noof{ ..

himself with an aspiring train robber/notorious gunslinger and saves Indians. starts bar brawls. and drinks himself into sill y stu­pors.

Hi story lends itself easily to an amalgamati on of cultural mi x­ing, mi sg ivings. and di spl ay s of kun g-I'll . In hi s rniddl e- agc Jackie Chan may be limit ed in

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Seven da ys, seven days , and who is counting? Lots 0 1' yo u seniors I suppose , illlp;lti ent to ge t on with the res t ur yo ur li ves. But please be li eve me, if YO ll C; IIl , the last 4 years will tUI'll out to ha ve bee n some 0 1' th e he st years of yo ur life . That does no t mea n that thin gs are go in g to he prett y crurlllllY from now on, on Iy that it wi 1\ take a bit o f distance for YOll to reali ze that what you have .iu st lived through was in ­deed a hi gh. Whether you reali/.e this or not, the great day is approaching (ti c ... toc ... ), and with it new be­g innings, or as we say in French, "Collllllencement" . We co uld also say "De­huts" , but that brin gs to mind a rather Illore soc ial afrair. I don't think that calling you g raduate s (Iebutantes and dcbutants would co nvey the ri g ht message .

[n spite of the excep­tion al educational opportu ­nities that you have had at Caltech, the re are thin gs that we did not teach you , things that are essential for success and maybe even for survival in Ihe outside world, So it is hi gh time that I try to remedy this failin g. Sit up already and listen.

It is crucial for you to recogni ze that in the outside world (yes there is one), tirne has a different value than in the go lden confines between Wil so n and Hill and Del Mar and California. Yes, Caltech is bi gge r than

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beyond these boundaries , but these few bloc ks are whcrc the time anomaly is mos t dcveloped. In sp itc of what has been yo ur custOI1l for the past 4 yca rs , it is im­perati ve that yo u now re­lea rn that most profess ional activities take place betwcen 9am anel Spill, Mo nday through rriday.

Calt ech is lenie nt to a fault in a llowing you lati ­tude in choosing , let's call it, your personal longitude . Wh en il is midni ght he re many of you heha ve as if YOll wcre li ving J 20 degrees East of hcre. l3ut in th c world into which we arc about to release you, thi s schcdule rllostly won't do . It could be reason enough to be fired. There are few jobs where working hours so di s­connected from the norm would he tolerated. So, if you arc te rminally time shifted, find yourself an ap­propriate positi on (Night watchman , Policeman , Emergency vehicle driver, Attendant. at an all ni ght gas station), or reform , I sup­pose you could also move to Europe and tic toe as if you were at Tech ..

Come to th ink 0 fit, there is another solution . That is to work for the right tec h­nology company. I undcr­stand that many eompanics all but ask thcir employees to live at th e ir work , At Te llme, apparently one of the brightest start ups in Sili ­con Valley, I understand that so me executives have bunk beds built over their desks­shade s of tb e I-Iovse yo u

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Valkyrics/ at lop vo lume. No one will int erfere with yOllr partics, al least you think , howcver raucous they'll get. Kid yourself not. The tenant below will bang on hi s ee il ­ing with a broom handle (al ­thou gh not a warlock, he) and th e polic e, the rea l thin g, no t the s low- to­arouse security, will shut you dow n, bet on it.

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o ld , heast s of burd e n Cor your eve ry move. Gone the imperatives o r the Ho no r Code: there will he no 110C in your future. Even so let the Code unde r which you li ved at Tech kee p guidin g. your COlldUCI eve ll whell yo u arc awa y from he re . Gone ... but yo u ' ll di scover sno ll enough a ll Ih e thin gs th at you will be mi ss in g.

I-laving g. ivc n yo u a I'cw of the reaso ns for yo u to mi ss Ca!tech. 1 must al so lell yo u that we will mi ss yo u too. It is a trul y hitt crsweet occas ion to see you g.l). 011 th e o ne hand we a ll ;Ire proud thai Y() lI ma lic ii, ;Ihout half' o i' Y< llllVith H OII ­

ors, in Ihe sc hoo l w ith nil e of Ihe 111 0s1 dCIII :l ncling c llr­ri cula in th e counlry. We ;Ire happy to ha ve :1 new crop of amhassadurs . Yet we :He sad to sec you \e. ;IVC. Il() W thai we ha ve go tt en so l1 sl~ d to yo ur face s, and silliic s. ;llld quirk s, and, we ll. yo u kn() w. We like yo u, wa rt ., ;Inl! ;i1I .

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Additional lISS Course An­nouncement for Fall Term 2000-0 I: Lit 129 Au ste n, Bronte, Woo lf An introduction to four of the most im portant Engli sh writers of the nineteenth and ea rl y-twe nt ie th ce nturi es. Understanding these nove li sts <IS a traditi on. we will pay par­ticular attention to fo rmal devel­oprnent s in the Nove.! from tlK; marri age plot through modern­ism. Jane Austen, Charl otte and Emil y Bront e. and Virgini a Woolf' s major works- including but not limited to Emma, Per­suasion, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights. Mrs. Dalloway , To the Li ghthouse. Instructor: King; TTH 1-2:10

The McKinney Committee of the Ca ll.ech Litemturc Fac­uIty is pl ease to announce the winners in the 2000 contest for excc lle nce in writing. In the cat­egory of prose fi cti on, first pri ze has bee n wo n hy Dav id Hoc kaday. [n t. he category of non-fi cti on essay. first prize is awartk:d to .lit Kee Chin. The poe try pri ze was wo n by Stephen Shepherd. The Hall ett Smith Competiti on (for the fin­es t essay devo ted to Shakespeare) was won jointly hy .lim Wong and Robert Swin­ney.

RELOCATION: Effec tive Mo nda y, May 8, 2000 , The Bursar 's O ffice will re locate from the fir st fl oor of Ke ith Spaldin g Building (Business Serv ices) , Roo m I 16, to 363 South Hill Street and occupy the fir st flo o r o f th e main Hill House. The new Mail Code for the Bursar's Of lice will be 3-7. The telephone and fax nurnbers for The Bursar's Office will re­mai n the same. Please note that the Disbursement Audit Office has been moved to the garage st ructure in the back of the Hill House. Additionally, a new Sat­ellite Cashier' s Office will be operati onal for Perso nal Ac­counts only in the garage struc­ture of 363 So. Hill Street. The Satellite Cashi er'S Mail Code will be 4-7 and the te lephone number will be (626) 395-2482. Only a minimal disrupti on in services on the morning of f ri ­day, May 5. 2000 is antic ipated.

The final Beginning Night Club Two Step class originall y scheduled for Mon 29 May has hee n resc hed ul ed for 7 :30 -9 :00 pm Mon 5 .Iun ' OO in Winnett LOllnge. foO l' furth er inform ati o n see WI I' It ·. ils. ("({Ilee/i. edu/-bailmOI1l

orc; JiI I)on at ()26179 1-3 103.

Haisey Rodman 's ,1I·t instal­la tion entit led "One and Many Suns." whi ch inc ludes sculpture and photog raphs, wi II be on view at Ca lt ech' s Outdoor Art

Space until .July 9. The art site is located behind the Campus Recycling Center on llolli ston A venue

Local indic rock lahel look-1n g fo r int e rn s fo r sa les, mark etin g, internet and promoti ons. Looking for moti ­vated se lf sta rt er who is re­so urceful and res po nsibl e . Cornputer skill s a plus! Seri ollS inquires onl y pl ease. Email : vr i d ll er @neICU /lI. CO/1i. URL: 11111' : / / IV W IV. va 1/ r i ell f er. 1/ e I. Telephone number: 583-4717

C IM Vision International , an E-Co mm e rce co mp any based in Long Bcach, Califor­nia, is seek ing talented indi vidu­als with a pass ion fo r soft ware deve lopment in Windows 2000 COM+/Java/ASP. Iml11 cd i<l te openings are ava il able. Candi ­dates mu st show attenti on to detail in their work, have good oral and written communicati on skill s adn dcmonstrate that they wo rk we ll under press ure as well as in n fas t paced team en­vironment. Preference will be given to those candid ates th at have expe ri e nce with C++. MFc' COM / DCO M /CO M + , ATL , Java, SQL and UML. Please send resume and a cover letter to: Human resources, CIM Visi on Int ernati ona l. 300 Ocea ngate, Suite 1500. Long Beach, CA 90802.

Due to recent vandalism, Cleveland Elementary School in Pasadena is seeking dona­tions of books and equipment for the school' s library. Specifi­cally, the school is in need of two overhead projec tors and books appropriate for grades K-6 to replace those stolen or de­stroyed. Donations my be made direct ly to Cle veland Elemen­tary Schoo l at 524 Pali sade Street, Pasadena, Ca liforni a, 9 I 103. For questi ons or further inform ati on, please co ntac t Principal Abel Quesada at 626-794-7 I 69 or Laura Biedebach in th e offi ce of C ong ress man .T ames E. Rogan at 626-577-3969.

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Monthly randol11 drawing for a $30.00 girt certificate to a local bi ke store and free tune up and ex tras at th e Comrnute r Fa ir Day, on May 19th! If you arc a di stance rider, log in your miles for an ex tra chance to win ;Iddi­ti onal prizes every 6 month s.

EVENTS

Caltech 's KipFest Science SymposiuJII to Feature Phys i­cists Kip Thorn!': and Stephen

Mints Haw kin g. Ad va nce T ic kets Available Now. Caltech is host­ing KipFest, a sy mpos ium on the occasion of theoretical astro­ph ys ic ist Kip Thorne's 60th Birthday . .June I to 3. 200n, to honor hi s carecr in ph ys ics, and hi s commitment to the comlllU­nication and populari za tion of science and sc ience education. Early ;Idmission tickets fo r the Sa turd ay Scie nce Talks are ava ilable now at the Ca ltec h Ticket Offi ce for students, fac­ulty, staff and .IPL employees, with a limit of two (2) per I.D. These ea rl y admiss ion ti ckets prov ide guaranteed seating if presented by 9:30 a. m.There are a limited number of ti ckets, avai lahle on a fi rst-come. first­served bas is. For more infonna­tion on tickets, please contac t the Ca ltec h Ticket Office at ex t. 4652.

45th Annual Service Awards Ceremony, Tues., .Tune 6, Ramo Auditoriulll . 10 to II a. m.- A reception will follow in Dabney Gardens.

Physics Resea rch Confcr­ence . Thu. , .Iu ne 8, 201 E. Bridge, 4 to 5 p.Ill.- "The Cos­mic Mi crowave Background: Past. Present , and Future," An­drew Lange, professor of phys­ics, Ca ltech. Refreshments, 110 E. Bridge. 3:45 p.m.

106th Annual Commence­ment, Fri ., June 9, Beckman Mall , 10 a.m. to noon- The speaker wi II be author Ray Bradbury .

Skeptics Society Lecutre . Sun., June II , Bax ter Lecture Hall , 2 to 4p.m.-"Dellying His­tory : Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?", Dr. Michae l Shermer, author, publisher, and Skeptics Society founder. Do­nati on is $8 for nonmembers and $5 for members and non Caltech student s. The lecture is free to the Caltech/JPL commu­nity . Information: 794-3119.

CaltechIMIT Enterprise Fo­rum, Sat., June 17, Baxter Lec­ture Hall , continental breakfast and registration, 7:45 a.m. ; pro­gram, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.­"Wire less Internet: The Nex t Gold Rush." A panel of experts will di sc ll ss th e Wire less Internet and rev iew the plans

and progress of successful and e merg in g Wire less Int e rn et content and software ventures. Admiss ion is $40 ($10 for non Ca ltech students; free to Caltech students and faculty). and prc­registration is required. Infor­mation: 395-39 16.

Thc 12th annual NA S A Planetary Scie lH:e Summer School offers student sc ienti sts and engineers the unique oppor­tunity to design a space exp lo­rati on mi ss ion in one wee k. "Discovery Microllli ss ions: ro­cused Low Cos t Scie nce" is sc hedul ed fo r Au gust 7- 11 . 2000, in Pasadena ,Calirorni a. The program is directed towa rd PhD candidates and recent PhD graduates. For more information on the program and an applica­ti on fo rm , please visit hrrp:// www.jp l. nasl/.gov/pscis(· /i I)()11.

The dead line for appli cations is June I 1, 2000. Questi ons on sc i­ence content may be directed to Ms. Anita Sohu s at JPL, (8 18) 354-66 13, o r ani la. JIl . .mil us (jJljp l. /l(lSiI. go 1'.

SCHOLARSHIP

The C ollegia te Inve ntors Competition, a program of the Nati o nal In ve nt o rs Ha ll o f Fame, is handing out money­big money-to college in ven­tors and the ir advisors. Eac h winnin g student - or student team - receives a $20,000 cash prize. Faculty advi sors eac h re­ceive a $ I 0,000 cash prize. The competition , open all full -time college students and judged hy distinguished scienti sts and in­ventors from across the country, awards up to six pri zes each year. The deadline for applica­tions is June I, 2000. In addi­tion to cash prizes, winners and their advisors will travel to the induction ceremony of the Na­tional Inventors Hall of Fame on September 8-9, 2000. During the weekend, winners will be honored and have the chance to learn from the greatest scientific minds of our time who vi sit the Hall of Fame each year for the inducti on festivi ties. Applica­ti ons a re ava il ab le a t WWIV. in ven t. orglcolleR iafe.

The Jewish Loa n Associa­tion is offering interest-free stu­dent loans to qualified individu­als for tuition, books and sup-

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pli es. and living ex penses. Ap­pli cant s mll st havc completed a minimum of nne year of IlIldn­graduate study and have a 2.5 GPA or above. For further in­formation. please co ntac t the Jewish Free Loan Assoc iation at 2 13-76 1-RR30 or 8 18-4(J4-3:n I.

The J ohn (; yles Edllcation Fund is o fferin g sc holarsilip awa rds up to $3 .000 for I he 2000-0 I academic year. Appli ­cants mu st bc Ca nadi an or l1.S. c it izc ns, have a 2. 7 C PA or above. and dcnlOnstrate fin an­cia l need. Crit er ia other th an strictly academic abilit y and fi ­nancial need are considered in the selec ti on process. To rcquest an appli cati on. se nd se lf- ad­dresscd. stamped enve lope to: The .T ohn Gyles Education I ;und, Attn : The Sceretery. P.O. Box 4R08, 7 12 Ri ver s id e Dr. Frederic ti on. News Brun swick, Ca nada J:::3B 5(;4. hling dat es fo r ma iling docu ment s in 2000 are April I, .T une I. an d Nove lll­her 15.

The Uepartmcnt or Dcfcnse host s three student int e rn shi p prog ra ms a t th e Law rence Li vermore National Laboratory. These in c lude Int e rn ships in Teraseale SiITuri <l ti on Tec hnol­ogy (ww H·. I'III. gOl,j\· f ';.1'1 ,../illlll ).

Accelerated Strateg ic Comput­ing Initi ati ve (ASCI) Pipeline Prog ram (www. 111/ I. f? Ol'/a sci/ index.hfml), and Gradu ate In ­te rn s in Nu c lea r Wea po ns (WIVW. eriucafioll .III1I.}?ol'/gi II f).

Housing and sa lary are at com­petiti ve rates. For more informa­ti on, contact Barry Go ldman, 925-422-51 77 . or }?oldmalll @lhrl. l{ol!.

Information and applica­tions for 2000 Summcr Work­Study are ava il able in the Finan­cial Aid Offi ce. If you are inter­ested in Summer Word-Study, plea.~e submit. the required ap­plica ti on as soon as poss ible, but no later than June J, 2000. If awared, work-study funding will begin July 5, 2000.

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prefe rred . The editor, rese rve th , ri ght to edit and abridge allmalcria l Deadline is noon Weci nc,day. Unles, spec ifi cd, a ll lll int s will run for tW( weeks.