Word: instinctiveness
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...Thinking is our specialty, or so we think. How could a device capable of nothing more than calculation (of the possible moves) and scoring (of the relative strengths of the resulting positions) possibly beat a human with a lifetime of experience, instant pattern recognition, unfathomable intuition and a killer instinct...
Health care is an area in which most Americans are doubly socialist by instinct. We don't think people should be denied good health care simply because they can't afford it. And we don't think people should be denied the right to pool their health-care costs with others--the essence of insurance--just because their particular costs are predictably high. On the other hand, we reject the Big Government solution to these problems, as symbolized (somewhat unfairly) by President Clinton's health-care plan of 1993. Thus the temptation of this year's leading health-care proposal...
...Loker at the one man on campus who, like me, favors the John Harvard statue to the stacks, patterned boxers to plaid and Ec 10 to Sex. There we would sit, marveling at our common fantasy to be the fire-eater in the circus, and at our shared instinct that we would both play dumb if approached by a mugger--facts that would never have come to light if it had not been for Datamatch. Another success story for the cupids on the council...
Surely there must be some mistake. "The chessmaster today must have courage, a killer instinct, stamina, and arrogance," chess grandmaster Larry Evans once said. Yet an object possessing none of these emotions can dominate the game...
...himself in his rivals' cross hairs, and that's exactly what happened during last Saturday's Iowa debate, when nine of the 14 candidate-on-candidate swipes were directed at Steve Forbes. But now that he has won the battle to be taken seriously, will Forbes display the killer instinct required to finish...