Word: australia
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...Jersey, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Half the transcontinental system's capacity is devoted to development of an artificial intelligence for diagnostic medicine. At the moment, SUMEX's two bi-coastal computers also link 20 research projects in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. Says Saul Amarel, chairman of the Rutgers department of computer science: "The purpose of SUMEX is to help doctors match signs and symptoms and get not only some probable diagnoses, but information on drugs and their side effects...
...Since the article appeared, we have had innumerable phone calls from your readers trying out our home telephone number, which is now listed in TIME, as well as the Jerusalem directory. The callers have been mainly Christians who telephone from as far away as Detroit, Rochester, and Perth, Australia, to ask if I am really Jerusalem's mayor...
...Members: Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway have also imposed sanctions. Japan has promised not to take advantage of the economic opportunities created by these measures...
...emerged to defend them in distinguished westerns (John Ford's The Searchers) and easterns (Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo). What Miller has done here is create a milieu as dense and tangy as Tolkien's Middle Earth or Céline's demimonde. This is Australia as the Down Underworld, where character is revealed in the gradations between good and awful. Drawn in vivid cartoon strokes, this menagerie can be funny or heroic or scary...
Most of the entrants, of course, were United States citizens--but there are plenty of others: 38 from Japan. 15 from Bermuda, two from Saudi Arabia and one each from Australia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic...and more...