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Word: mannerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in regard to two pieces that appeared recently in The Crimson. As a student hoping to pursue a career in journalism and as a human being who has long followed the situation in the Balkans, I feel it is necessary to comment upon the manner in which this issue has been treated by The Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kosovo Coverage Clouded by Apathy and Laziness | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...writing in regard to two pieces that appeared recently in The Crimson. As a student hoping to pursue a career in journalism and as a human being who has long followed the situation in the Balkans, I feel it is necessary to comment upon the manner in which this issue has been treated by The Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...holes wherever he went. He died at age 72 in a Princeton hospital, essentially because he refused to eat. Much as formal systems, thanks to their very power, are doomed to incompleteness, so living beings, thanks to their complexity, are doomed to perish, each in its own unique manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mathematician KURT GODEL | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...idea that a machine could learn from and thus modify its own instructions. In a famous 1950 article in the British philosophical journal Mind, Turing proposed what he called an "imitation test," later called the "Turing test." Imagine an interrogator in a closed room hooked up in some manner with two subjects, one human and the other a computer. If the questioner cannot determine by the responses to queries posed to them which is the human and which the computer, then the computer can be said to be "thinking" as well as the human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Scientist: ALAN TURING | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Bavarian industrialist, Mengele joined the Nazi Party in the 1930s and began studying the sham science of "racial hygiene." In 1943 he became medical chief at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he sent more than 400,000 non-Aryan prisoners to the gas chambers. On the side, he engaged in all manner of experimental butchery--dripping chemicals into prisoners' eyes to see if he could turn them a more Reich-pleasing blue, exposing others to infectious diseases to watch how different races respond to pathogens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cranks... Villains... ...And Unsung Heroes | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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