Word: clay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the computer sitting across from chess champion Garry Kasparov is instructed to play, and its screen reads, ''I'd rather not,'' then I'll start worrying about whether the next person I meet is a Terminator. Independent thought is the advantage we humans (currently) have over ''thinking'' machines. CLAY LOOMIS Arroyo Grande, California Via E-mail...
Stop-motion animation, in which each character and prop made of clay or plastic must be adjusted 24 times for every second of film, is a technique that requires a masochistic devotion. Park has that and more: a storyteller's genius for incident and personality. Wallace--an airplane-headed, cheese-loving bachelor--and the silent Gromit share a village home, less as man and dog than as two longtime companions stolidly accepting of the other's quirks. They are, in a way, the definitive English odd couple...
...Cobb County, Georgia, Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, Republican state senator Chuck Clay fought unsuccessfully to prevent the intermingling of the county's transit system with that of metropolitan Atlanta because he feared that the local mall would be invaded by "bands of urban Atlanta teenagers...who aren't there to try on suits." In Pelham, New York, the mayor recently called for the demolition of a footbridge that spans the Hutchinson River Parkway and links wealthy, largely white Pelham with poorer, racially mixed Mount Vernon. And Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, home to many members of Congress, opted...
...Clay M. West '97, who was last semester's finance committee chair, said the council is preparing to take applications for financial grants to student groups for the new semester...
...Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science Arthur Jaffe, a noted researcher in the field of quantum theory, gauge theory and other areas at the interface of math and physics, has been elected to serve as president of the American Mathematical Society...