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...better application philosophy. This meant I not only sent each school on my list a bonus letter of recommendation, additional essay and academic paper - those were givens - but my mother unearthed our family tree from the attic so I could find out the precise relation of a great-great cousin of some remove who'd graduated from the school at the top of my list. I promptly listed him in the alumni section of the application...
...evolution of computer consciousness. While we cannot really think of a computer running this "babbler" program as having a fully human-like intelligence, we can consider it to be a viable presidential candidate. Well, to be fair, this "artificial" candidate has one major advantage over its flesh-and-blood cousin--with a flick of a switch its inane babbling is silenced...
...January evening, as he rode back to campus with his cousin Brian Fanning, he was, as usual, totally absorbed with his idea. "I'm like that. Once I begin focusing on something, I'll just keep going until it's done. I cut off the outside world." When the BMW pulled up to his red-brick dorm, Fanning absentmindedly got out of the car and began walking up the path. After two steps, he stopped. Brian, who was about to pull away, waited as Fanning turned around, strolled back to the car, opened the door and climbed back...
...Monday morning. And as the students work on math exercises, Feeley-Brooks checks up on the class. Jerome has a black eye he says he got from roughhousing with his cousin. George is sitting too close to Curtis and getting distracted...
...that she has always opposed outing--she once helped Rock Hudson "counter-blackmail" a woman who threatened to expose him--and that she doesn't like to define herself in terms of her love life. So why write about her two marriages or her childhood "molestation" by an older cousin ("I had rather enjoyed...