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Rachel McDermott, a Ph.D candidate in Religion, will depart on October 1 for Calcutta, India, in the hope of improving Western scholarship on the Bengali goddess, Kali. McDermott said that her investigation will consist of studying the Bengali poetic tradition, especially during the 19th-century, devoted to this deity...
...convention hall erupted when Jack Kemp said. "If we do our job right, I predict that by 1992--the start of George Bush's second term--one-quarter of our party will consist of Black, Hispanic and Asian-Americans, who will see in our party the best hope of a better life for themselves and their families...
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...
...labyrinths. Calgary has 42 bridges running 6 miles that link 110 buildings. The American skywalks (also called skyways, skybridges, * or, in the unfortunate case of Charlotte, N.C., the Overstreet Mall) are concentrated in the upper Midwest, where winters make strolling problematic. Two separate systems in Minneapolis and St. Paul consist of 73 bridges running 6 1/2 miles between 65 city blocks; Des Moines's 32 bridges connect 21 downtown blocks. Most of Detroit's 20 "tubes" have been built since...
...Black-and-White boat, which will consist of bow Jillian Buriak, two-seat Martha Rogers, three Joanna Bench, four Vicky Keane, five Betsy McCagg, six Mary McCagg, seven Karen Weltchek, stroke Juliet Thompson, and cox Leigh Weiss, will race first today, followed by the junior varsity eights, the novice fours and the novice eights...