Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many fans of Independence Day, The X-Files and alien-autopsy videos know, Roswell is the town in southeastern New Mexico famous for a UFO crash that allegedly took place in 1947; the military, so the story goes, recovered some alien remains--and has kept them locked up ever since in a top-secret deep freeze. The Pentagon maintains that what it really recovered was the remains of a sophisticated, secret, surveillance balloon. But who would want to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that? So this summer, from July 1 through July 6, the town will be host to Roswell...
...computers to play like humans. Experiments that took advantage of the brute calculating force of the machines--where the computer analyzes every possible legal move in every position--produced much stronger moves. As computers got faster and the evaluation functions were made better and better, computer chess players just kept getting stronger...
...handled some of the bombing evidence and who has been severely criticized. In earlier testimony, however, Burmeister acknowledged one point that may stick with the jury: he found no traces of explosives in McVeigh's car or in storage facilities in Kansas, Iowa or Arizona where McVeigh allegedly kept the main ingredients for the weapon...
...father died in 1994 after a long illness. In the end, his heart simply wore out, and morphine was the wonderful drug that allowed him to relax and breathe easily. My father wasn't "snowed under" but, rather, was kept comfortable with small doses as needed. He no longer worried about dying (as he had for years), because he felt good mentally, emotionally and physically. And when his time came, he died in peace. SALLY A. FALL La Jolla, Calif...
...acting. Now his worldly success has faded (especially the money), and Raju is trolling for work in the fly-blown lanes of the Pahargunj slum of New Delhi. He earned $15,000 from the film, but he comes from a family of 11, and he claims his former agent kept part of the cash. Unable to read or write, the onetime child star does not want to return to buffing shoes. But if Hollywood has forgotten Raju, not everyone else has. French businessman Gerard Gheleyns has taken Raju under his wing and is helping find him treatment for his stunted...