Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chicago 28, Tampa Bay...
...Diego Chargers traded wide receiver John Jefferson to Green Bay in exchange for "future considerations and draft choices...
...something that scares the hell out of you, it's mobile ice moving at four or five knots and coming at you like a 16-ft. plowshare." But the prowling plowshares are at a safe distance this time, and Borgert tells Kardonsky to press on for Prudhoe Bay. The Cavalier arrives at its destination 26 hr. after it left Wainwright...
...crews will wait anxiously for the now-empty barges to be rehitched so that they can set sail for Seattle. But for Kardonsky, the most experienced skipper in the fleet, a more savage task remains. The Cavalier has to tow one last load of equipment to Prudhoe Bay. The tug will return to Wainwright, hook up with a bargeload of pipes from Japan and once more swing east. Feeling the menacing bite of the chill September air, the crew will be praying harder than usual that the Arctic not mistake Kardonsky's nerve for defiance. -By Michael Moritz
...return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head. Not that the brain actually leaves the head during the summer months; rather, something happens to it, or on it, like a moon caught in an eccentric orbit between the sun and, say, East Hampton or Bodega Bay. Astronomers know this event either as the "mental equinox" or "cranial eclipse." It is not serious, causes no permanent damage; the apparatus is simply altered while the body is on vacation. After Labor Day, when the body stands vertical again, the brain pops back into shape like an inflated cauliflower...