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...true devotees would skip meals, drop classes and give up sleep and social lives to burrow deeper and deeper into their beloved electronic brains. Once they started on a project, they would regularly "wrap around," working day and night until, after 30 hours, they collapsed on the nearest cot or sofa. Programmers at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab eventually discovered that the space between the roof and false ceiling made a comfortable sleeping hutch, and some of them lived there for months at a time...
Unlike many of his colleagues. Weaver is reluctant to consult with authors about obscurities in their books, or even to show them his work in progress, unless they have perfect command of English. He has good reasons. Five years ago, one author complained that Weaver had used the word cot instead...
...thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" The injured in Lawrence, Kans., smiled bravely at their injuries. The young actress who was supposed to be suffering from radiation sickness smiled bravely at the student who comforted her, and he smiled bravely back. On a cot in Cambodia lay a young man whose arm had just been amputated, and next to him lay his infant daughter whose arm had also been amputated. Neither of them smiled. They both looked numb. The stump of the man's arm kept twitching uncontrollably...
...faculty, alumni, and townies, novels that start off at Harvard and never return, and novels that check into Harvard and never leave. And virtually every one of them--as if to observe an unwritten rule of the genre--pauses for at least one bounce on a Buildings and Grounds cot before reaching its conclusion Surely no other segment of the population (with one possible exception) is as sharnelessly obsessed with the sex life of Harvard students as the creators of Harvard fiction...
...weather last week to apply for 200 jobs at an auto-frame factory. The growing number of previously middle-class families who now need public assistance has prompted strapped Milwaukee County to consider programs to discourage people from going on welfare. One proposal, known as "two hots and a cot," would have provided welfare recipients with a place to sleep and two meals a day instead of cash grants. More than 80 food pantries where the needy can get emergency food have sprung up throughout the city. Says Barbara Notestein of Milwaukee's hunger task force...