Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does work that is set solidly in the Jewish tradition," Thiemann said. "Christianity and Judaism have been seen to have a sibling role and tradition. But Jon is rethinking the relationship between Judaism and Christianity to see what is common and what is different...
...common practice is that research use in a non-commercial sense is never challenged," said Joyce Brinton, director of Harvard's Office for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing. Brinton said that Leder had already been offering his product to researchers at a rate well below the breeding costs of the mice...
That needs some explaining. The foundation is called the Giraffe Project, and its aim is to recognize people who "stick their necks out for the common good." Risk must also be involved: the chance of losing a job or being ostracized by a community. "Each of these individual acts," says Medlock, "teaches the rest of us important lessons about learning to cope in an unsafe world...
Despite recent advances, neurocomputing attracts skeptics. Thomas Poggio, head of the Center for Biological Information Processing at M.I.T., insists that proponents of neural networks have exaggerated their computers' smarts. "The only thing they have in common with the human brain is the word neural," he argues. At best, neurocomputers consist of only a few thousand connections -- a very small number compared with the trillions of connections between billions of neurons found in the human brain. "Before trying to duplicate the human brain," Poggio says, "scientists will have to learn far more about the brain than they already know...
...arriving in Moscow at what could prove a critical moment in Soviet military history. Since taking over as Defense Secretary late last year, Carlucci has struggled to control costs and rationalize U.S. procurement policies. He may find, in that sense at least, that he has a lot in common with his Soviet hosts...