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...FAST FORWARD TO THANKSGIVING 1972. Back in New York for the holiday my freshman year in college, I go see the New Riders of the Purple Sage - sort of a rockin'-country adjunct to the Grateful Dead - at the Academy of Music. Perhaps my proximity to the mirror ball overhead clouds my judgment, but it is my distinct impression that my skull has been imploded by the virtuoso performance of Buddy Cage, the Riders' pedal steel player. Cage is the real deal, a country veteran who played on Anne Murray's first five albums; in contrast, the Dead's Jerry...
...retrospect, pediatricians and psychologists say, there have been hints for the past decade or so that something strange was going on. But it wasn't until 1997 that anyone put her finger on it. That's when Marcia Herman-Giddens, now an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, published her famous paper in the journal Pediatrics. Herman-Giddens noticed in her clinical work that more and more young girls were coming in with breasts and pubic hair. Intrigued, she launched a major study of 17,000 girls to get a statistical handle...
...computer has passed an open-ended free-topic Turing test, but I say that we are being too harsh. Just as children progress through the various stages of pre-consciousness to full self-awareness in their toddlerhood, so too computers must slowly approach their sentience. Thus I propose an adjunct to the Turing Test, something that I will immodestly christen the "Greenleaf Test." If a computer can generate sentences that are indistinguishable from political campaign rhetoric, it has passed the Greenleaf test. In other words, if a computer can eventually be indistinguishable from presidential candidates, it has taken its first...
Virtually all of the current searches for university presidents include faculty and students in some sort of formal advisory capacity--if not on the search committee itself, then as a part of an adjunct body...
Painters had done still life before. The tradition goes back to Greco-Roman antiquity. Still life cropped up in later painting but usually as an adjunct, a prop. From there it turned into a sort of allegorical fixture--the 17th century peach with its brown spots and wormholes, for instance, warning of the rottenness and transience at the heart of worldly pleasure...