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...been able to break the habit until just before he was traded to New York in mid-June of 1983. When he lost ten pounds and awoke one morning with his nose bleeding, he knew he was in trouble. "I had the shakes and I wound up throwing a gram down the toilet," he testified. But what finally turned him off, Hernandez said, was when he saw St. Louis Outfielder Lonnie Smith, who now plays for the Kansas City Royals, have such a "bad experience" with cocaine that he was unable to play in a 1983 game...
...police alert goes out. Dozens of officers search the courthouse corridors. One policeman, Gerald Baetzhold, draws his revolver, trips and shoots himself in the foot. Our hero, unaware of the chaos he has caused, has already left the building and delivered a Rambo-gram, a terse but humorous message, to a lawyer across the street...
...real-life drama last week was precipitated by a joke: Rambo was an impersonator named Mark Stancampiano. Mission accomplished, he was heading back to his car when two more officers nabbed him. Stancampiano was later charged with disorderly conduct. Nonetheless, his boss, John Gowen, who has been selling Rambo-grams for six weeks at $64.95 a message, was excited by the publicity. Late last week he was planning to start a new service: the Miss Rambo-gram...
...computer scientist named Edward Shortliffe. Using tools developed for AI research, Shortliffe boiled down everything he knew about diagnosing infectious blood diseases and meningitis into about 500 "if-then"rules. Rule 27, for example, said that if an organism found in a patient's blood is rod shaped, gram- negative and able to survive in the absence of oxygen, then there is a strong likelihood that the organism is a type of bacteria called Bacteroides. In tests that applied these rules to cases reported in the medical literature, MYCIN was eventually able to diagnose as well as or better than...
...price tag could also be out of this world: an estimated $84 billion. NASA protests that the expense is not much greater than the cost of the original Apollo pro gram in today's dollars, a mere $73 billion...