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I was surprised that the article “Dances with robots,” while mentioning Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959, Putnam), should speak of “master-slave telerobotic devices.” As any fan of the dean of science fiction knows, these devices are most properly called Waldos. Mark Sicking
Spring Shadow, Conn. I am reading Science News on this anniversary of our independence, and I am startled by an irony: The Minutemen, who sent the British troops packing, were armed only with muskets that weren’t supplied by the government.