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...Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon's blue-sky high-tech research wing that everyone calls DARPA, decided it was interested in developing robotic vehicles that could drive themselves: no remote control, no human intervention, only artificial intelligence behind the wheel. But instead of hiring a bunch of fancy nerds and sticking them in an undisclosed location until they came up with a robo-car, DARPA held an open-invitation unmanned-car rally. Come on down, bring the kids, and may the fastest bot win. Grand prize: $2 million...
...sounds fill him with hope that his parents are still alive. By realizing his musical potential, Rush hopes to reunite with his family. Rush’s talents are first discovered by Wizard, a modern day Fagin, played by Robin Williams. Instead of pick-pocketing, Wizard supervises a raggedy bunch of street musicians. While Williams would have excelled at the role of a freelance artiste who teaches Rush how to play the guitar, the direction turns him into a psychotic, exploitive, and morally ambiguous child abuser. Wizard’s poorly conceived role as the villain ultimately slows the film...
...much more flippant, changing stations very frequently.So while Arbitron’s head is certainly in the right place, the art of people-counting in radio land is a long ways from being perfected. If anything, PPMs have only confirmed our sneaking suspicions about what a mercurial bunch of radio listeners we are. Radio signals may be everywhere, but don’t seem to make a lasting impression lately. Maybe after the beeper fad passes, radio stations will take this lack of attentiveness to heart.—Staff writer Kimberly E. Gittleson and contributing writer Evan L. Hanlon...
...this point, we were 15 1/2 hours aloft. Time for more food! I again chose fish (the Indian meal had run out) and it was as good as the first meal. I had brought a bunch of stationery with me, thinking I'd use the hours to return to the glorious age of letter writing. Nah. Back to Jarhead. Then another inspection trip to the bathroom--which remained remarkably clean to the very end of the flight. As Flight 19 finally touched down in Singapore, some 9,000 miles and 18 hours and four minutes after takeoff, the passengers broke...
...white Australians think of this minority as a bunch of thievish, ignorant welfare bludgers who are played upon by a handful of black demagogues. They oppose the idea of a national apology for past treatment of the Aborigines--a deserved and, in liberal opinion, an essential gesture of goodwill--by saying all this happened in their grandfathers' time, and the living bear no responsibility for it. This is Prime Minister Howard's view too, although--significantly enough--he is quick to drape himself in the nobler emblems of Australian history with which his generation had nothing to do, such...