Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America's allies often scold the U.S. for demonizing Saddam and needlessly personalizing the confrontation, but there is no question that he has become much more than an irritant. He has withstood all the sanctions the U.N. could pile on him, and thumbs his nose at the idea of being bombed again. His callousness seems to know no bounds. When UNICEF announced last week that a million Iraqi children have suffered from malnutrition under seven years of the embargo, Saddam acted to make their plight worse. He said he was uninterested in renewing an arrangement that allows Iraq to sell...
...weeks they arrived by commercial airliners--a bunch of innocuous number crunchers from the International Monetary Fund. This particular force had been invited in by the South Koreans, though not without a good deal of misgiving. Just a few weeks before they arrived, Seoul had been calling the idea of an IMF rescue unthinkable. Now the unthinkable is fully under way, and the fund's inspectors have become supervisors of the world's 11th largest economy...
...poster of Grier's 1973 movie Coffy up on his office wall. THE BADDEST ONE-CHICK HIT-SQUAD THAT EVER HIT TOWN! boasts the poster, which sports an illustration of a shotgun-wielding Grier in low-riding stretch pants and a revelatory bikini top. "I got an idea," Tarantino told Grier. "I want to write something...
...slightly, as if groping for memories, meaning, connection. So are we. Because the play, in its terse but meandering way, occasionally stumbles on a snatch of family observation to which we can all relate (Jolly complains that her parents never bought her skis), or wrestles with the intermittent big idea (Bobby's longing for his Jewish roots), some people may mistake this for profundity. But it's pretentious doodling...
...smitten. So I looked up Julia's creator, Michael Mauldin, who told me that he built the "chatterbot" in 1990 to reside in the virtual world of TinyMUD, an early experiment in online community building in the pre-Web Internet. Mauldin's idea was to use the all-text environment of the MUD to stage a so-called Turing Test--that is, he wanted to build a piece of software that could trick humans into thinking they were communicating with one of their own. It worked. "One guy hit on Julia for 13 days," recalls Mauldin, noting that although...