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Others, however, are already thinking beyond existing technologies. Johan de Kleer, a respected knowledge-system designer at Xerox, envisions an all- purpose electrical diagnostician that would have specific knowledge, such as the various laws that govern electrical flow and conductivity. But it would also have the common sense to decide whether it was faced with a broken VCR or a broken computer. To build this system, de Kleer has spent ten years codifying what he calls "qualitative" calculus that will provide the language to build "common-sense physics." The problem with common sense is that it requires the computer...
...week as hundreds of thousands of the country's black mineworkers stayed off the job and the mining companies hit back with the start of mass firings. But after a four-hour negotiating session Sunday, the blows and counterblows came to a sudden end. "The strike is over," said Johan Liebenberg, chief negotiator for the Chamber of Mines, which represents the six largest mining companies. While the settlement appeared to be mostly on the Chamber's terms, Liebenberg said, "Both parties realize what the costs of a strike are and have learned to respect each other...
Those words would not be particularly surprising if they came from one of the liberal reformers who have long opposed apartheid, South Africa's poisonous system of racial segregation. But they come from Johan Heyns, the new leader of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (N.G.K., the Dutch Reformed Church), for many years one of apartheid's principal pillars. The church has traditionally provided God-fearing Afrikaners with powerful scriptural support $ for the system by insisting that separation of the races represents the will of the Almighty...
...Johan de Villiers, who farms 5,000 acres along the Limpopo River: "We whites are always worried about our future and our children's future. We're always avaricious. We always want more and more. The African is different. If there is a drought, he moves on. He can adapt. If they can control their breeding and we can control our avarice, there is no reason we can't somehow get together. We do the planning, they do the work...
...home the government made another move to silence the voice of protest. General Johan Coetzee, the national police commissioner, announced a new emergency regulation banning South Africans from doing or saying anything to bring about the release of people who have been detained without trial. Of the approximately 30,000 arrested since the declaration of the state of emergency last June, some 8,000 are believed to remain in detention, including about 2,000 minors. Under the latest order it is illegal to participate in "any campaign, project or action aimed at accomplishing the release" of detainees. Among the forbidden...