Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Larry Flynt fought for our constitutional right to parody public figures-to fabricate stories about ministers engaging in a drunken incestuous rendezvous with their mothers in outhouses, so long as it did not intend "actual malice." A decade later, Flynt is back at the First Amendment dartboard, this time aiming to accomplish some good ol'progressive muckraking...
...topics as what women stand to gain from "casual sex as one strategy within a flexible sexual repertoire," gives the lie to Ehrenreich's claim that evolutionary psychologists have been "fooled" into believing myths of female chastity. Ehrenreich might be more comfortable in a debate between polarized caricatures of actual positions, but surely this is the kind of simplistic thinking that she wants to take issue with. OLIVER CURRY, SERIES EDITOR Darwinism Today London School of Economics London...
...adding individual peak prices for each component to come up with Dow 10,043. Never mind that at no point during the day was the average near that level. Then came the modestly credible intraday benchmark last Tuesday, when the Dow briefly traded at 10,002 based on actual prices before ending the day much lower. On Friday the Dow traded well above the magical mark most of the day, only to sell off again...
After the war, Turing returned to Cambridge, hoping to pick up the quiet academic life he had intended. But the newly created mathematics division of the British National Physical Laboratory offered him the opportunity to create an actual Turing machine, the ACE or Automatic Computing Engine, and Turing accepted. What he discovered, unfortunately, was that the emergency spirit that had short-circuited so many problems at Bletchley Park during the war had dissipated. Bureaucracy, red tape and interminable delays once again were the order of the day. Finding most of his suggestions dismissed, ignored or overruled, Turing eventually left...
...with pleas for pity ("I can't get over her" or "Thesis is killing me"), some plan files are tiny cries for help into the void of cyberspace. But by their design, these messages must go unanswered. Their authors don't really expect consolation over e-mail. Fishing for actual sympathy over the Internet would betray a great deal of weakness; on the other side of things, nobody wants to admit to e-mail stalking other people ("Dear X: I was fingering your account at 4:30 a.m. and noticed your distressing plan file.") If these authors never expect...