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...Journal also noted that computers like Deep Blue can invent new drugs by "sorting quickly through hundreds of chemical combinations that once required months of human tedium." Well, as some toll takers might observe, one human's tedium is another human's job. And although automating the tedious does raise average wages over time, it can lower wages for people with obsolete skills...
...idea of a guy named Bonaparte to invent the FBI in 1908 (Charles Joseph, the Emperor's descendant who served as Teddy Roosevelt's Attorney General), and once initial suspicions were allayed that it would turn into some big, secretive, czarist police force, it did precisely that. The bureau quickly built its empire of white men in white shirts, chasing anarchists and Bolsheviks in the '20s, gangsters and bootleggers in the '30s, fascists in the '40s, communists in the '50s and civil-rights leaders and antiwar protesters in the '60s. The enemies, always changing, are changing still, and the agency...
...heaven's cliches than of its allures. "It's this place where you've got wings, you stand on a cloud, and if the concept is more sophisticated, where you see God and you sing hymns. It's a boring place, or a silly myth, or something people invent in order to make themselves feel better, or all of the above." Had Russell spoken these words a decade ago, it would surely have been in something close to despair. His tone today, however, can only be called cheerful...
Clinton didn't invent the White House sleepover. Among the 273 visitors who brought their pajamas during the Bush Administration, a few were G.O.P. donors. Others were supporters such as Rush Limbaugh, a man so crucial that when he arrived in June 1992, Bush even carried his bags. But like Henry Ford, Clinton took an existing idea and perfected its mass production. In the Clinton White House, 938 guests trooped through. They included the famous, like Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg and Billy Graham, and the relatively obscure, including numerous personal friends of the Clintons and Chelsea. But at least...
...Mostly I've had good TF's. A couple of times I haven't been able to invent a plausible scheduling conflict," Steele says...