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...Waldholtz was jailed today for contempt of court. Waldholtz is under investigation for allegedly stealing $600,000 that he was supposed to invest for his grandmother, who is incapacitated by Alzheimer's disease. When Waldholtz told the judge that he was too busy negotiating his divorce from to account for the missing $600,000, the judge ordered him jailed for contempt. Waldholtz was under court order to produce records that showed what he did with the missing funds. The judge also ordered Waldholtz to return any of the money still in his possession. The Waldholtz's are under federal criminal...
...just any book. Publishing sources say that a few years ago, Buchanan attempted to shop around a weighty manuscript on his 1992 campaign. No takers. A dutiful account of a short-lived presidential bid didn't look like a good bet. Buchanan might do better this time, says a prominent editor, if he offered a book on "how Dole and the Establishment tried to force him out of the race...
Ending corporate handouts is one of the rare topics on which activists and think tanks from both the left and the right find agreement. By some estimates, the government funnels up to $75 billion a year to business, enough to account for almost half the federal deficit. The Agriculture Department, for instance, will spend $110 million this year to advertise overseas everything from V8 juice to Friskies, a "market promotion" budget that is almost 30% higher than in 1995. As these companies are among the world's best at marketing, "it's hard for me to believe that McDonald...
WHEN GARRY KASPAROV FACED OFF AGAINST AN IBM COMPUTER in last month's celebrated chess match, he wasn't just after more fame and money. By his own account, the world chess champion was playing for you, me, the whole human species. He was trying, as he put it shortly before the match, to "help defend our dignity...
...course, it's always possible that Cog does have a kind of consciousness--a consideration that neither Dennett nor Chalmers rules out. But even then the mystery would persist, for you could still account for all the behavior by talking about physical processes, without ever mentioning feelings. And so too with humans. This, says Chalmers, is the mystery of the "extraness" of consciousness. And it is crystallized, not resolved, by advances in artificial intelligence. Because however human machines become--however deftly they someday pass the Turing test, however precisely their data flow mirrors the brain's data flow--everything they...