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...Cuba--that impoverished island 90 miles and an ideological half-century away from Florida--has begun bootstrapping itself into a biotech minipower. This improbable endeavor ranks as one of the most idiosyncratic of President Fidel Castro's ventures, and despite the anticapitalist rhetoric that resurfaced during last week's May Day celebrations, it may well prove to be the most profitable. The flourishing technological barrio that has sprung up on the outskirts of Havana is not only supplying state-of-the-art health products to local hospitals and clinics but also selling more and more of its goods abroad, bringing...
...Vermont player even tried to provoke a fight with a Harvard attackman, and failing in this endeavor, took an Oscar-caliber drive when he was nudged by a Crimson player in an effort to draw the refs' attention...
...comprehensive engagement, in a more muscular form than that practiced in recent years, has the best chance of creating a balanced, fruitful relationship. The U.S. should be hard-nosed on nuclear proliferation and intellectual-property rights, and may find it advantageous to enlist friends' and allies' support in that endeavor instead of going it alone. In the more sensitive area of human rights, a breakthrough will probably have to await the arrival of a new generation of leaders in Beijing, but the U.S. should acknowledge whatever little progress China has made. Says Burt Levin, a veteran China analyst and former...
...machines like Deep Blue, currently define the cutting edge of applied artificial intelligence--the 40-year effort to build machines that think. Ten years ago, when AI was as hot as the Internet is today, researchers raced to build programs that showed deep expertise in a narrow field of endeavor--like chess, for example, or medical diagnosis. These days, however, it's the promise of breadth, not depth, that inspires the artificial intelligentsia--and drives the programs that come closest to what the rest of us might regard as thinking...
Depressive illnesses affect a person's mood and consequently affect every facet of a person's life. A depressed person sees life much as being a hopeless endeavor offering little avenues for meaningful reward. The depressed become lacking in motivation, have trouble concentrating and sometimes become suicidal...