Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classmates about "life, God, science, and all those things we didn't know much about." He adds that, as a scholarship student, he felt the constraints of social class, symbolized by the automobile and the gentleman's C. "It was easy to distinguish between those with the Back Bay accents and cars and those who were interested in getting on the Dean's list and keeping their scholarship," he says...
Following a trajectory that minimized passage over land, the shuttle would carry its hot cargo into earth orbit. Then the crew would deploy a giant mechanical arm and guide the nuclear package, together with a booster rocket, out of the cargo bay. After backing the shuttle a safe distance away, the astronauts would fire the booster, kicking the nuclear package out of earth orbit and hurtling it sunward. The booster would be detached and steered back into the cargo bay for return to earth and reuse on further missions, like the shuttle itself. Meanwhile, after a journey of about...
...trip was even more eventful than the voyage across the Atlantic. Said Maxie: "We went from ecstasy to despair at least once a day." After they lifted off from Fort Baker on San Francisco Bay at 12:33 a.m. on May 8, Maxie and Kris threw overboard 1,000 lbs. of sand and water ballast and rose to 23,000 ft. There they had to don cumbersome oxygen masks and heavy parkas, but caught a breeze that sent them northeast...
...Royal Canadian Mounties, aboard a helicopter, came to the rescue. Using the backwash from the rotors, the chopper pilot pushed the balloon toward a clearing in Ste. Félicité, Quebec, where the gondola finally dropped to the ground, 99 hrs. and 54 min. after leaving San Francisco Bay. For once Maxie's mind was not on the next challenge, which he had previously suggested might be a balloon flight around the world. Said he: "I'll leave that for another...
...stations around the country, particularly on the West Coast, are rushing to clone her. Marr, now at Seattle's KVI, has hired Jennifer James, a cultural anthropologist. Station KXRX in San Jose has taken on Psychologist Thomas Tutko, while San Francisco's KSFO signed Psychologist Bonnie Ring. Bay Area Rival KGO hopes to top that by finding a male and a female psychologist to do a show together. Says a KGO spokeswoman: "Everyone in the industry saw what Toni Grant did to the ratings, and now everybody wants to copy her. She grows on you." Grant...