One night I was FaceTime'ing my girlfriend Jamie, and she told me that her school senior prom might be canceled.[…], he [Josiah “JT” Duenas] recalled.

Perhaps Butler deliberately sacrificed the neat closure that a scientific--or even pseudo-scientific--explanation of telekinesis and chronoportation would have given her novel.

Our site, ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix, was recently subjected to incredibly high loads caused by the interaction of the various uucp software, two receiving sites, and news transmission. Fortunately we're out of that thicket for now, but only in a hackish sort of way. We trickle articles into inews and have terminated one of our neighbors. The other two possibilities (news batching and uucp sub-dirs) were considered and will probably be adopted at some point.

The main chromosome in E coli is 4.6 million base pairs (4.6 Mbps) in length, ...