Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perennially strong, the No. 2 Tigers defeated No. 5 Harvard by a respectable 7.5 seconds, winning with a time of 5:50.7 to claim the Cup in the first varsity race. Harvard was second at 5:58.2, followed by MIT at a distant...
...with the American West by distilling its sprawling, general history into the essence of this well-knit chronicle, Berger should be commended for his painstaking research, which allows him, through our personal tour-guide Jack, to make a complicated and convoluted history seem both very straightforward and very real; distant and lionized legends like Wild Bill Hickok become poignantly human through Jack's unique perspective and experience. In his novel The Return of little Big Man, Thomas Berger proves himself to be a master of the storytelling craft through an engaging narrative that tells history through fiction in the most...
Extra innings seemed a distant thought in thetop of the first. Brown rocked Harvard starterfreshman Julie Schwab for three runs, including atwo-run home run by Erin Connors. Freshman SuzanneGuy came on in relief of Schwab, but her dayquickly ended after three straight singles andanother run for the Bears...
...course, identifying facial twitches is not the same as reading states of mind, particularly when the computer can make sense of only half a dozen expressions. But the newly trained machine should get a lot smarter in the not-too-distant future. In the next round of experiments, the scientists plan to expand the computer's recognition skills by teaching it to identify all 46 muscle actions in the Ekman catalogue. They will then program the computer to recognize the various combinations of these movements, pouring live video images of human volunteers directly into the machine's brain. Eventually...
...with incest survivors, Enright says, "People who came to us with moderate psychological depression--and that is a lot of pain--all ended up being not clinically depressed and retained that over 14 months." He and his students have also applied his forgiveness "intervention" to elderly parents angry at distant children and men hurt by the abortion decision of a partner. His latest project is with sex offenders in a Madison mental-health facility. Enright feels that by helping them forgive the abusers in their own past, he may awaken empathy for their victims and decrease their recidivism...