An article in October, 1997 (Sic - Ed)PC MAGAZINE 
discusses the further doings of Deep Blue type 
computers.  It states that financial investment 
modeling is one of the top opportunities for Deep Blue
technology.  A smaller version of Deep Blue being 
evaluated sifts through historical and current market 
data to evaluate stock and bond posibilities.  (Appar-
ently Deep Blue in a similar manner sifted through 
historical chess games, while calculating 4 moves 
ahead.)
   Pharmaceutical companies are evaluating a version of
Deep Blue to evaluate molecular structures. 

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Another Tech Article

In the January 24,1998 Science News, Vol. 153 is an 
article on the black hole (?) at the center of our 
galaxy.  Measurements tracking the motion of stars close
to the center of the galaxy provides more evidence that   
there is a black hole there.  Apparently there are stars
that are supposed to be just five light-days from the 
center which travel faster than 1,000 kilometers per 
second.
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TECHNOARTICLE Review:  Mapping the universe

    
  

Science News, VOL 153,January 31, 1998
 
  "Thanks to the keen eye of the Hubble Space Telescope,
astronomers may have accounted for virtually all of the 
sources of visisble light in the universe.  That's what 
Michael S Vogely of Princeton University concludes after
analyzing variations in the faint background glow between
galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field, the tiny patch of sky
that the telescope stared at for two weeks in late 1995.
The Hubble observations are the most detailed survey of 
the galaxies ever taken."

  (There are apparently other sources of infrared light
as stated in another article on background light from
dusty areas where new stars are supposed to be forming.)

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Literature Review: Jewish Literary Revival

    
 
In an artical in the Tikkun, Vol.12, No.6, 

  "This century of American letters has to a very large 
extent, been informed by Jewish writing.  But around 
the 1980's something happened. Young Jewish cultural 
escape artists both the beneficiearies and victims of 
assimilation played to perfection - stopped writing 
about distinctively Jewish themes.
  
  Until Now."   -Thane Rosenburg, Literary Editor

  "The current resurgence of Jewish American writing in 
a world rife with assimilation is as surprising as the 
survival of the Jews themselves.  As early as the 
1960's, ... informed and sympathetic critics like Ted
Soloroff and Irving Howe worried aloud that younger 
Jewish writers were running out of material: their
work was turning derivative and predictable as they
lost contact with the immigrant experience and its 
vigorous culture.

  Soon after the Holocaust, barely a decade after the 
post-war Jewish writers had touched a universal chord,
their successors, cut off imaginatively from Europe 
and the ghetto, seemed unable to serve up the rich 
ethnic flavors of the past or to subsist on the thin 
gruel of the suburban present.  By the Sixties young 
Jews were living much the same lives as otherAmericans.  
If anything singled them out, it was their widespread 
attraction to radical politics, not Jewish esperience.

   With the rise of black separatism, the Sixties 
climaxed with a surge of identity politics.  Black 
nationalism forged a compelling model for radical 
feminism, gay liberation, and finally what Michael 
Novak called 'the rise of the unmeltable ethnics."  
Over the next few years it became as fashionable to 
explore your roots as it once had been to transcend
them.  The fervent patriotism of the World WarII 
generation and the existential humanism of the early
Sixties were now seen as part of a discredited liberal 
mindset that had deprived us of personal meaning and 
led us into Vietnam.  Culture, identity and ethnic 
pride were the new watchwords, multiculturalism the 
new faith.

  For Jews there were special factors that contributed
to a wave of ethnic pride, including the Six Day War of 
1967, the dissolution of the New Left, and the growth
of the Havora movement that reinvigorated Jewish prayer 
and ritual by infusing it with communitarian Sixties
values.   Because of their history of persecution, Jews
have always been deeply invested in the Enlightenment
vision of equal rights within a color-blind society.  
The new religeous currents springing from the counter-
culture bridged the gap between Jewish particularism 
and Enlightenment universalism, especially by allowing 
women to play an equal role in the service...

  The new emphasis on identity, the revival of interest
in Jewish history, Jewish festivals, and sacred Jewish
texts could not help but lead to a new Jewish writing 
that would confound the predictions of the critics...

  Writing powerfully out of their own experience, they 
brought out of their own experience, the older writers 
could not begin to confront some of the emerging 
realities of Jewish life:  the unexpected return to 
religion, the conflicts over assimilation, the youthful
rebellion against suburbia, the key Jewish role in the 
New Left and the counterculture, the growing involve-
ment of American Jews with Israel, and the newly-
awakened memories of the Holocaust after 25 years of 
amnesi  New tonalities were soon heard in Jewish 
writing..." 

-Morris Dickstein


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