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...grew up in Kansas City, in the middle of Tornado Alley, so I know tornadoes. Or at least tornado warnings. My childhood experience with killer storms consisted mainly of trekking over to our next-door neighbors' basement (my family, tempting the gods, didn't have one) on those spring and summer evenings when the weather bulletins got ominous. Usually the excitement would be over in a half an hour or so, and we'd trudge back home, vaguely disappointed that the only twister spotted did nothing more than flatten a gas station near Osawatomie...
...Minnie icons, and Disney's annual report prompted snickers by referring to Capital Cities/ABC employees, in traditional Disneyese, as "new cast members." At a corporate retreat in Phoenix, Arizona, Eisner and Ovitz joined in the wholesome fun as a group of ABC execs was dragged off to a bowling alley...
Lenat might say the same, though for less flattering reasons. As far as he's concerned, Brooks is headed down a blind alley, trying futilely to retrace evolution's steps. The simple tricks that made Brooks' earlier, insectlike robots work will never "scale up" to the complexity of human-level reasoning, Lenat insists. And as for those bugbots? "As far as I can tell," he says, "the world has enough insects...
...bowling alley in Raymond, voters expressed disillusion with both the Republicans and Democrats...
Junior co-captain Alley Penningroth dominated the throwing events once again, winning both the shot (11.29 meters) and the 20-pound weight throw (13.58 meters). Sophomores Jenny Berrien and Alison Goldkamp won the 55-meter hurdles (8.61 seconds) and the 400-meter race (58.23 seconds) respectively...