Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joyce once said, "Imagination is memory," and he drew greatly on his personal experiences for his works--so greatly that his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is considered nearly biographical. For many of his female characters, who seem even more real and human than the male characters which Joyce based on himself and his experiences, he drew on Nora. Molly, Gretta Conroy in The Dead, Anna Livia Plurabelle in Finnegans Wake all bear striking resemblences to Nora...
...cogent analysis--and his policy recommendations--go far deeper than the don't-throw-money-at-it truisms that have become commonplaces among critics of the welfare system. Ellwood, a professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and a key member of its Center for Health and Human Resources, proposes sensible and sensitive reforms to the current system...
Despite recent advances, neurocomputing attracts skeptics. Thomas Poggio, head of the Center for Biological Information Processing at M.I.T., insists that proponents of neural networks have exaggerated their computers' smarts. "The only thing they have in common with the human brain is the word neural," he argues. At best, neurocomputers consist of only a few thousand connections -- a very small number compared with the trillions of connections between billions of neurons found in the human brain. "Before trying to duplicate the human brain," Poggio says, "scientists will have to learn far more about the brain than they already know...
...affair strained credulity from the outset, like the proverbial little man who wasn't there. Benveniste's researchers had diluted a solution of antibodies to such a degree that there was no likelihood that even a single molecule of the antibody remained. But, voila, when human white blood cells were exposed to the superdiluted solution, they apparently responded by releasing a chemical substance, as they would have if they had encountered the initial antibody solution. The effect only worked when the solution was shaken violently. Explained Benveniste: "It's like agitating a car key in the river, going miles downstream...
...mother has worked full time at the state department of human services, where she processes vouchers, since before her first child was born. "Nowadays, once you start depending on that second paycheck, there's no turning back," she reports...