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...animal is in a behavior-based situation, [such as navigating a maze,] directly corresponds to its future behavior: what it can, may and will do in the future. We can see that the animal does in fact - I hesitate to use the word, but I'll use it anyway - "think." In terms of brain activity, anticipating the future and remembering the past seem to be related...
...budding creators of creatures: When in doubt, give them an extra set of teeth-the better to eat you with, my dear.) Winston's ickiest godchildren would face off in Alien vs. Predator and a 2007 sequel, which he sat out. That stuff was mostly computer-generated, anyway...
This isn't supposed to be a problem anyway. A couple of years ago, some starry-eyed technology pundits--myself included--announced the dawning of the age of free municipal wi-fi networks, when every American city would have its own city-size hot spot. It would be too cheap to meter! But the legal, technological, financial and political practicalities of municipal wi-fi have been much harder to work out than anyone expected. Even mighty Google had to back down from its plan to flood all of San Francisco with free wi-fi. Downtown Spokane, Wash., is online, though...
...mean skinny, and that has to change." That's especially so since the word happy was too often defined the same way. Blonsky herself admits middle-school classmates' heckling made her dislike her figure. Until, that is, she realized, "I could always keep up with the thin girls, anyway." Actually, she seems to have passed them...
...speculate about, or endorse, the increasingly popular idea that Virginia Senator Jim Webb should be Barack Obama's running mate. Sorry, but no. That sort of speculation is usually a waste of time. It is what political reporters do instead of reporting during the dead weeks after the primaries. Anyway, there is more important Webb-related business to be transacted now. He has written a book, A Time to Fight, that may be the best evocation of the 21st century Democratic Party's emerging style and philosophy. In the process, the Senator bids a not-too-fond adieu...