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UNDERDOG DAYS This week the candidates addressed two major concerns: health care and the economy. Bush announced his plans to overhaul Medicare, and Gore released a 191-page economic blueprint. Bush also declared that he is now the "underdog" in the race. Maybe pledging more would spike his poll numbers...
...occasion for the celebrity gathering was Grogan's new book, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival, which he co-authored with journalist Tony Proscio...
...blueprint is right," said Boston Police Strategic Planning head James T. Jordan...
...about the Clinton marriage. State of a Union by Jerry Oppenheimer (the author of tell-alls about Martha Stewart and Rock Hudson) doesn't have a great deal new to tell about the union. Oppenheimer's thesis--that the Clinton marriage was based from the start on an "intellectual blueprint" to win the presidency--is stale. But he has new evidence to support it, including on-the-record stuff from Marla Crider, a onetime Clinton girlfriend who clashed with Hillary in 1974 and has never discussed the situation publicly. And Oppenheimer has uncovered new material about Hillary's family background...
More important, however, is the software of intelligence. The most compelling scenario for mastering that software is to tap into the blueprint of the best example we can get our hands on: the brain. There is no reason why we cannot reverse-engineer the human brain and copy its design. We can peer inside someone's brain today with noninvasive scanners, which are increasing their resolution with each new generation. To capture the salient neural details of the human brain, the most practical approach would be to scan it from inside. By 2030, "nanobot" technology should be available for brain...