Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with artificial intelligence is that it is artificial. It will remain so and will never be like the real thing. It is just like artificial honey or artificial wine. If, along with matter and energy, information was counted as a basic building block, we could enhance man's understanding of nature and reconcile theology with science in many ways. It can be shown that even in mathematics, the number of problems that can be formulated is indefinite. There are always questions left to be answered, and there is always room for God. PETER FISCHER Bremen, Germany Via E-mail...
...NATION, April 1] hit the jackpot! Fast-paced, highly addictive casino-type gambling is being pushed onto citizens by the industry and certain political officials across America. Thanks to leaders like activist Thomas Grey, efforts to legalize casinos, riverboats or slots at tracks are being thwarted. The coalition to block gambling extends to many business groups that understand that the discretionary dollar goes only so far. As people spend their money on new gambling games, they are less likely to go to restaurants and movies. CHRISTOPHER J. MCCABE, State Senator Annapolis, Maryland...
...racetracks that fear losing business to casinos. Nonetheless, NCALG's main foot soldiers are so-called traditional-values and pro-family activists. In Louisiana this week Southern Baptists are escorting Grey to rallies around the state. In Michigan Christian Coalition members helped collect 100,000 signatures on petitions to block casinos in Detroit. So far, Roman Catholic churches, with their bingo and Las Vegas nights, have been little help, while main-line Protestant churches just "like to pass resolutions," Grey scoffs. "I don't have time to organize the goddam rear. This is a citizens' movement...
...quickly learned that ferreting out secrets calls for equal parts of patience and perseverance. It can take years to gain the trust of intelligence officers and months to verify the information they provide. Such was the case with this week's story about the CIA's efforts to block construction of an underground chemical-weapons plant in Libya. "This kind of story never gets dumped in your lap," says TIME's national-security correspondent. "The information is always shrouded in secrecy and comes in tiny bits that have to be pieced together like a puzzle...
When NBC's top-rated block of Thursday night sitcoms (The Cosby Show, Cheers) began to fall apart in the early '90s, it was Littlefield who shrewdly remade the night, adding new hits like Seinfeld and Friends and capping it off with ER, the medical drama that is now TV's No. 1 show. It was Littlefield who found himself "laughing out loud" at a quirky comedy pilot called Third Rock from the Sun that was first brought to ABC; he put it on NBC in January and got credit for discovering the only bona fide...