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With the nails of a Dream Team member, I headed to Natasha Matthews, a hair stylist recommended to me by swimmer Jenny Thompson. Matthews thought that even with a severe trimming, the best she could do was make me look like a chess player. Annoyed, I sat down in front of Donna Bushell, who worked in the next chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Me a Gary Hall Jr. and a Little off the Top | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

Lenicheck's score pulled the Crimson to within a goal, but it would be the last offensive production from either side as the second half became a defensive chess match...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Soccer Drops Ivy Opener to Brown, 2-1 | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...just something cafe patrons and commuters are going to have to deal with. But thanks to Alain Rossman, not every stranger will treat you to half his conversation at an unseasonable volume. He will be too busy using his mobile to trade stocks or download MP3s or play chess with his buddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Helping The Net Shed Its Wires | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

Other scientists have created similar robots in their computers, to say nothing of systems intelligent enough to play championship chess, but Pollack and Lipson took a giant step out of the virtual world. After they hooked their computer to a $50,000 commercial plastic model-making machine, it produced actual offspring, not just a model on a computer screen. The only human intervention was installing the robot's little motor and computer-programmed microchip ("neurons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Robot Out of Cyberspace | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

Where do you go with your deepest, darkest secret? We went to a park. Old Korean men looked up from their chess games in astonishment to see a gaggle of whites and redheads and Koreans sit down at the table next to them with cameras, gifts and notebooks. Rae presented her birth mother with a book she had made about her life--full of childhood pictures and purple-penned poems--but the woman showed no emotion as she looked at it. Rae presented her with a silver locket--a picture of herself inside--but again, no eye contact, no hugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seoul Searching | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

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