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...fact that the robot's instructions can be changed is critically important to its industrial use. A standard assembly line must produce a large amount (about 1,000 units a day in the auto industry) to operate economically, and it takes months to alter or renovate its component machines; a robot can be reprogrammed for a new task in a few minutes. Furthermore, at least 60% of U.S. manufacturing is done in batches too small for assembly lines. Robots can do many of those jobs, and it is estimated that they can reduce costs in small-lot manufacturing...
...United Methodist mission official: "People are becoming increasingly sensitive to language that renders half the human race invisible." As it happens, such sentiment is strong in the National Council of Churches (N.C.C.), whose education division is overseeing the RSV revision. But the N.C.C.'s leaders have hesitated to alter the RSV radically, partly because the organization gets the royalties. The RSV has been a success largely because of its preservation of much of the evocative language of its antecedent, the King James Bible of 1611. So after the education division decided to prepare a new edition...
What has sparked renewed interest in these procedures is growing evidence that they can indeed alter behavior. Originally, the goals were modest: the relief of pain caused by a misaligned Dick Tracy jaw, for example, or the treatment of constant drooling by a deformed inmate who could not close his mouth. But as Bear and Joy told a conference of their colleagues in San Francisco, these operations often pay dividends for society. Joy points with pride to a once unpopular prisoner at Virginia State Penitentiary, an antisocial murderer who, after surgery to correct a grossly protruding jaw, finally...
...staked out new musical territory to accompany his apocalyptic vision of English society. Even when his lyrics border on the ridiculous, he can still harness them in a deeper and more soulful voice. "Someone Up There" does not like him, belying the suggestive title. Jackson finds he cannot alter fate, nor find a rational explanation for his girl's departure. But instead of letting the cliched idea and danceable guitar riff carry the song to oblivion, Jackson--the producer (for the first time)--fades out the music and leaves his voice up front, wailing...
...Midsummer Night's Dream, though, is a durable enterprise. Changes in cast or location may alter its nuance but not its essence. Epstein's production strips the corroded encrustations of audience expectation from the familiar play, letting Shakespeare's poetry shine with its own unreflected light, magnified but not tinted by Purcell's music. It is a production worth reviving over and over again, as long as there are directors and actors willing to look at it as lucidly as it looks at Shakespeare...