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...AUSTIN, TEXAS: Texas became the latest state to file suit against the tobacco industry in order to reclaim Medicaid costs. The state is seeking $4 billion, the estimated total expense to Texas taxpayers for smoking related Medicaid claims since 1980. The suit, filed in a Texarkana federal court, also aims to curb tobacco advertisements that the state claims are targeted at children. The lawsuit is the first government action to claim the tobacco industry has violated federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as well as racketeering and conspiracy laws. Eight tobacco firms are named in the suit, including industry leaders...
Douglas Lenat has similar hopes for his artificially intelligent brainchild--a sprawling, data-rich computer program called CYC (as in encyclopedic). But where Brooks expects Cog to teach itself about the world, Lenat is leaving nothing to chance. For more than a decade, his CYC development team in Austin, Texas, has been typing in the rules of "human consensus reality" (otherwise known as common sense) one thuddingly obvious assertion at a time. "Bread is a food," for example, or "You're wet when you sweat." CYC knows nearly a million of these rules now, and when it has another million...
When the annual NCAA men's basketball tournament tipped off Thursday, Harvard found itself analyzing brackets, learning more about the dribbling acumen of Austin Peay's point guard, watching CBS non-stop, and yes, even, cheering for hated Princeton in their first-round game against last year's national champion, UCLA...
TUZLA AIR BASE, BOSNIA: An American soldier was shot and wounded in the left shoulder early today by an intruder at a base in the U.S.-controlled sector of northern Bosnia. A spokesman for the NATO-led peace force said Spc. Shawn Austin is in stable condition. Austin was patrolling the base with one other soldier when they saw the intruder and opened fire. "He challenged the intruder, who in turn fired a shot, which hit the soldier in the left shoulder," Lt. Col. Chuck Merlo said. He did not know what kind of weapon the intruder was carrying...
DIED. RALPH W. YARBOROUGH, 92, Texas Senator from 1957 to 1971; in Austin. Yarborough was known both for his flamboyant oratory and for his 1963 feud with Texas Governor John Connally. Many believe that smoothing over the rift was part of the reason for John Kennedy's visit to Dallas that year. In the well-known motorcade, Yarborough rode two cars behind the President and Connally...