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...patient" questions or order medical tests, and plausible answers or test will results will instantly appear on the screen. By framing hypotheses and testing them in this fashion, students can eventually make a diagnosis and either have it confirmed or ask the computer where their reasoning went astray...
...senior British official suggested wryly that the whole affair had been arranged by the Kremlin in order to give the anti-cruise forces in Britain a boost. But in Paris, French President Francois Mitterrand expressed concern over the incident. Said he: "It is frightening that such things can go astray, because this sort of (nuclear) war is one of split-second reactions...
Several Crimson penalty corners went astray as time ticked away...
...tragedy with the Soviet commanders who ordered the unarmed airliner to be destroyed. Some maintain that the Korean plane was on a U.S. spy mission, as the Soviets claim. Others charge that while the plane may have been inadvertently off course, U.S. military trackers saw it go astray, issued no warning and coldly exploited the situation to see how Soviet air-defense systems would react. Concerned over the notice such arguments were getting, the State Department held a briefing last week at which one official repeated to reporters: "These charges are totally false. The U.S. does not use civilian airliners...
...decades. Hollywood's self-referential myths, far more than baseball's, revolve around the seduction and betrayal of the innocent. But now that the deed is done, it is equally easy to see how this material can lead even the most conscientious and respectful writers and directors astray. The problem is that the true life of this novel, for all the bustling melodrama of its surface, is inward; its highest pleasures are to be found in the silence it maintains about its deepest thoughts. It tips these only in a descriptive fragment here, a line of laconic, often...