Word: forested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admission that the programmers fine-tuned Deep Blue to curb its aggressiveness provided even more evidence that Deep Blue was acting only as a calculator. If the program had been able to see the forest as well as cut down each tree, it would have made that adjustment itself. In the future, such adjustments by researchers between games should not be allowed. Deep Blue should be left on its own to meet the overall capability of its opponent, a much greater challenge. ROBERT J. KRAWCZYK Chicago...
...Defects" and "Green Politics in the U.S. and Bulgaria." The recent Brown University graduate recalls how, growing up in Los Angeles, "my T-ball practice was canceled week after week because of smog. Now the air is cleaner." The morning of his speech, he had overflown the Willamette National Forest, its mountaintops scalped by clear-cutting. But rather than preaching doom, he boasts of recent blockades to protect old-growth enclaves. "I hate environmentalists who are always grouchy," he explains afterward. "They forget the joy of making a difference...
...selling out to a white organization," Werbach says. "It is not just about Yosemite and the beauty of the wilderness. It is about cities--the air we breathe and the water we drink. When I speak in urban grade schools, their No. 1 issue is the rain forest! That is disempowering, when these communities are surrounded by incinerators and toxic dumps." At the student coalition, he pushed a lead-poisoning education project with materials in English, Spanish, Hmong and Vietnamese...
Beneath the Two-Headed Girl's intricate social sphere lies her even murkier "inner life." This is the purview of Purple Moon's second line of games, Secret Paths. The debut title, Secret Paths in the Forest, is a gorgeously illustrated adventure game whose players take soul-baring journeys that are essentially preteen female versions of Robert Bly. The game begins with girls gathering in a tree house to talk Issues: one girl doesn't think she's pretty enough, another isn't getting along with her siblings, and so on. Purple Moon misses no chance to add layers...
Welcome to Harvard, Incorporated, where it's never enough. Outlay/Student Robert J. Coolbrith Crimson Harvard is ranked sixth in per student spending. School Spending per student Cal. Tech. $73,967 Johns Hopkins U. $61,704 Washington U. $54,020 Wake Forest U. $49,051 Yale U. $45,507 Harvard U. $42,902 U. of Chicago $40,686 Allegheny U $33,270 Columbia U. $32,738 U. of Pennsylvania $32,022 Source: 1996 U.S. News and World Report College Rankings...