Word: disasterous
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Deep Blue didn't flinch. His gambit, Kasparov admits, was "a complete disaster, because the computer simply doesn't care. If the threats are not real, it sees that. So the machine simply took all the pawns and defended its king." And for an industry that IBM had built in...
Ever since candidate Bill Clinton survived the Gennifer Flowers disaster of 1992, pundits have decreed that the American people no longer care about the "character issue" in electing public officials. In the time since Clinton has taken office, his supporters have had multiple occasions to thank God that such an...
--In Asia, battered Japan is back from the brink of disaster. After little growth in 1995, it last year recorded 3% growth, the fastest among the big industrial economies. Meanwhile, China, its expansion having run amuck two years ago, has managed to pull off a "soft landing" by cutting back...
The play explores the classic romantic triangle but with a twist: The "other woman" is an ectoplasmic ex-wife. Charles Condomine (Robert Bouffier) is a writer researching the occult for his next novel. Together with his second wife, Ruth (Sheila Ferrini), he summons the delightfully eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Mara...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Forget about terrorism, nuclear bombs or chemical weapons. When it comes to threats to U.S. security, nothing sends more shivers down American spines than the brown tree snake. Or so says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, who described the non-poisonous reptile from Guam as a "major disaster looming...