Word: linke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, the machines give something back--something that their human creators never envisaged. This happened recently in the realm of pinball. Pinball exists as the missing link between simple physical games and computer games. Here the physical element is still obsrevable enough for a human to easily grasp cause and-effect relationships without any prior knowledge...
...Taylor's departure from the Harvard music arena will be damageing to that department. She has been a major link to the Boston musical community, and under her direction, the one Harvard chorus that is open to members of the community outside Harvard has brought many people onto the campus...
...mysterious, unmarked box of papers received by a university last year may now make life uncomfortable for a few tobacco executives. Thursday, a San Francisco judge ruled that that the University of California San Francisco may release the documents, which reportedly showthat cigarette companies knew for decades that a link existed between smoking and cancer. Brown & Williamson tobacco company had claimed the papers were stolen and demanded their return. But Superior Court Judge Stuart Pollack wondered why the firm was so anxious: many of the documents, he noted, had already surfaced in congressional hearings and suits against tobacco companies...
...toiled quietly in the research section of the Soviet division and the counterintelligence staff. There was hardly an important, or even an unimportant, case involving the KGB or the GRU (Soviet military intelligence) that she did not know. Jeanne Vertefeuille could follow the tangled threads that might link a case in Kuala Lumpur 10 years ago to one in Vienna today. If a KGB colonel had appeared in Copenhagen under one name and turned up a decade later in New Delhi with another identity, give it to Jeanne-she would sort...
...validity of his confession, however, is heatedly disputed -- no small matter since police have no witnesses, no weapon, not even a fingerprint, to further link Davis to the Biebel case. The police insist that Davis offered his confession without prompting; Davis counters that it was coerced under threat of death. Now, a coalition of Illinois activists-among them a former Chicago police chief, a retired judge, author Studs Terkel and several prosecutors-is scrambling to rescue Davis from execution by lethal injection this Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. at the Menard Correctional Center...