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...perfection in the one-room schoolhouse. November sport at Hanging Woman is a snow-swept game of croquet in a tiny school yard ringed by a wire fence that keeps out stray cattle but not, alas, bull snakes (Brown killed three of them earlier this year). At Lennep, science lab may be watching Alka-Seltzer tablets dissolve at varying speeds in glasses of cold, warm and hot water. Socially, too, youngsters nurtured in the gentle intimacy of a one roomer may tend at first to be loners, and lonely, when tossed into a big high school...
...program is an expert system that mimics the thought process of a human being and derives its store of knowledge from Myers' 45 years in internal medicine. To tap its expertise, a physician enters information about a patient (age, sex, symptoms, lab data) and waits briefly while the computer sifts through the 4,000-odd symptoms and notes in its data base and comes up with a list of possible illnesses. The doctor can then direct the machine toward one condition in particular, or switch the computer to an interrogative mode, in which it will ask for additional pertinent facts...
Adults like Ru do not need to be educated about what life in Sichuan was like before the province became a testing lab for Deng's agricultural reforms in the late 1970s. The country's most populous province, Sichuan is also its rice bowl, a jade-green paradise whose fertile valleys have fed China for centuries. Yet Mao Tse-tung's policies proved so debilitating that by 1976 Sichuan was importing food for the first time in memory. Deng had visited his home province the previous year and had been shocked by the destitution he found...
...arms control, and progress will almost certainly depend on some give in the U.S. position. Reagan may decide, or be convinced by his more moderate aides, that restricting SDI to research does not mean killing the program or giving up the hope that what is discovered in the lab may someday free mankind from the nuclear threat...
...waiting press corps, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes issued a one-paragraph statement, including the assurance that "all indications are that when the lab results are in they will confirm the President to be in excellent health." Next day the results were released: all the growths were found to be benign. That came as no surprise to Reagan. When he departed from the hospital the day before, he said he felt "just fine" and flashed the thumbs-up sign as he and Nancy boarded a helicopter and headed off to Camp David for the three-day weekend. MONEY Counterfeiting Made...