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...robotics. Breazeal got the idea for Kismet when she was working with Cog, another robot in Brooks' lab that was built to have the physical capacities of a human infant. Cog has a torso, a head and arms, and it can engage in simple tasks like turning a crank or playing with a slinky. Cog is physically gifted but completely lacking in social skills...
...Linkin Park's debut came with instructions, they might read something like this: 1. Argue with your mother. 2. Stomp off to your room. 3. Slam the door, crank up the stereo and sulk. Fitting this much angst into one album should be impossible, but this southern California quintet (vocalists Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda, drummer Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson and DJ Joseph Hahn) proves conventional wisdom wrong on track after track of an album destined for heavy rotation in the stereos of disaffected suburbanites everywhere...
...pushing than an attack ad. The overwrought pilot alone hits social promotion, desegregation, guns and student-teacher sex. For an encore, Kelley may have to blow up the school. The staff is well cast, especially Chi McBride, above, left, as a besieged principal and Fyvush Finkel as a charming crank. But in portraying its one-dimensional teens, a surly lot of vipers and nitwits, Boston needs remedial...
...Harvard Lampoon writer, and Andrew Steele, they came up with the idea of this guy who gives advice on love. So those guys came up with that aspect of the character, and I came up with the voice. I'd been doing this voice as a crank phone call to amuse my wife and myself, because I was leading a very boring life. I'd make calls to radio stations or call to order food or whatever, and I'd do this voice to sort of hide who I was, for a number of reasons. Because if I said...
...Korb, now with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, is viewed by some as a professional Pentagon crank. He says that if the nation eliminated its need to wage and win two wars at once, and scaled back on its purchases of Cold War?era arms, it could safely cut defense spending some $62 billion from its current $290 billion level. "Since the end of the Cold War the U.S. military has continued its Cold War practice of rushing new generations of weapons systems into production to stay ahead of its putative rival," Korb says. "But, since...