Word: cog
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Adding former Bull Horace Grant and Isaiah Rider to the team, Lakers fans were optimistic for another smooth run to the NBA Finals. Jackson had successfully tamed Dennis Rodman, transforming the former Detroit bad-boy into another cog in his well-oiled triangle offense that yielded six championships to the Bulls in the 1990s. Surely, he could handle Rider and tap the tremendous talent beneath his troubled past...
...Still vivid to him were the two girls he found in a field still strapped into their seats. "They were clasped tightly together, their fingers crossed, and a look of horror on their faces," he says. Like others in Lockerbie, Parr muses that al-Megrahi must be "a small cog in a big wheel," but he is equally proud of the Scottish justice system and what he sees as a fair trial. He feels it is time to move...
...thinks he is a building contractor), is to collect three 12-year-old girls and take them to Kuala Lumpur as prostitutes. As they are virgins, they will fetch $4,700 each. He hates doing it, Joe says, grimacing again, but he's only a lower level operative, a cog in a huge machine...
Kismet is able to engage in the kind of purposeful human interactions that cousin Cog could not. Kismet calls people toward it. And when they get too close for its cameras to see them well, it protects its personal space and pulls away. When an object suddenly appears in front of it, Kismet quickly withdraws and flashes a look of bewilderment. Most winningly, the robot is able to engage in a babbling "conversation" with humans in its midst. When it "talks," it takes turns with its human interlocutor, a decent representation of a conversation between an adult and an infant...
That deficiency was driven home to Breazeal one day when she was interacting with Cog. Breazeal put an eraser down in front of Cog, and Cog used its arm to pick the eraser up. When the robot put the eraser down, Breazeal picked it up. Breazeal and Cog continued taking turns picking the eraser up and putting it down. To an outside observer, it might have looked like the robot was intentionally playing with Breazeal, but Cog's mind just didn't work that way. It was while engaging in this deceptively human-feeling interaction that Breazeal decided...