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...crisis is in order. It isn't just that as these machines get more powerful they do more jobs once done only by people, from financial analysis to secretarial work to world-class chess playing. It's that, in the process, they seem to underscore the generally dispiriting drift of scientific inquiry. First Copernicus said we're not the center of the universe. Then Darwin said we're just protozoans with a long list of add-ons--mere "survival machines," as modern Darwinians put it. And machines don't have souls, right? Certainly Deep Blue hasn't mentioned having...
According to workers from the Facilities Maintenance Office (FMO), the snow that began falling Thursday piled into a heavy, wet drift that hung over the roof of the building...
...after he's done accusing Dole of "hauling water'' for Big Business, can he get his troops to do the same? It's hard to put the populist genie back in the bottle. With their attention turned from Washington to Wall Street, will the disenchanted blue-collar voters drift back to the Democrats, who support free trade but will promise to do a better job of protecting them from its sharp edges? And there's a natural home for them in Ross Perot's anti-NAFTA Reform Party, if it decides to run its own candidate for President...
Many Forbes backers have centrist views that might otherwise have led them to drift toward Dole as the most moderate of the Republican field. Among the supporters of both candidates, about the same percentage describe themselves as regular churchgoers (Dole 45%, Forbes 43%). But when it comes to social attitudes, Forbes voters are less likely to side with the Christian Right. On abortion, 57% are pro-choice, in contrast to 48% of those for Dole. Asked whether the government should promote one set of moral values over another, 54% of Forbes voters say no. Among Dole voters, a 51% majority...
...Crockett) fights with his preacher father (Tyrone Bean); a preposterous, grade-schooler's version of a prostitute (Melanie Futorian) fights with her john (Dwight Hart). Meanwhile, incredibly realistic-looking homeless people (Nick Linski and Tania Guimond), complete with filthy hair and that unsettling, rocking motion of the mentally disturbed, drift through the audience, with cups out for money...