Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately or not, there were enough scars to go around. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His parents divorced when he was five, and while one child stayed with his mother, Hanks and two others went with his father, who married a woman with five children of her own. Other divorces followed for both parents, and by the time he was ten, says Hanks wryly, "I had three mothers, five grammar schools and ten houses." His own first marriage, which produced two children, also ended in divorce, and only last April, Hanks married his second wife, Actress...
...catch is a testament to modern technology, but it is hardly unique. Over the long Memorial Day weekend, many of America's 54 million anglers headed for the nearest river, lake or bay armed with depth finders, pH meters and computerized tackle. The history of fishing is a history of equipment, but with the advent of low-cost electronics, one of the world's most popular participatory sports has rapidly become its most high tech. "Fishermen are looking for every advantage they can get," says Robert Sullivan, a salesman at Larry Smith Electronics in Riviera Beach, Fla. "They are saying...
SCHEIM argues that in the first two years of his administration, Kennedy roused the ire of the Mob for authorizing his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to crack down harshly on organized crime. In addition, the Mafia was enraged at the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, which left Fidel Castro free to shut down Mob-run businesses in Cuba. Ordinarily, Scheim writes, the Mafia would not dare put out a contract on a president, but Kennedy had "slept with" the Mob, using his Mafia connections to meet Judith Campbell, who engaged in affairs simultaneously with the president...
...that's it. Despite intense exploration, there has been no major oil discovery in the U.S. since Prudhoe Bay in the early seventies...
...Itsy Bitsy Spider. Though he has not spelled out a detailed policy, he points to the state-sponsored program he developed as Governor of Massachusetts, the most comprehensive in the nation. Over the past three years, it has increased placements in state- licensed centers by 20%, to 117,000 Bay State youngsters...