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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Winsten, director of the Center for Health Communication at SPH, said drunk driving this month may be more of a problem this holiday season because of increased celebration surrounding the new millennium...

Author: By Benjamin P. Solomon-schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Clinton Appears in Announcment Encouraging Y2K Designated Driving | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

...claim that computers can't create has been challenged by two recent experiments, in which the output of computer programs--rigid algorithms with little room for intellectual freedom--was judged to be indistinguishable (or even better!) than the attempts of unconstrained human imaginations. In other words, originality may be a little more unoriginal than we thought...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Creativity, Bit by Bit | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

...acts conscious"--whether an observer would be unable to tell that its output came from a computer and not another human. Brutus.1 has by no means become a thinking writer, but if its product looks human to readers, it has somehow made up for whatever capacity of ingenuity it may lack...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Creativity, Bit by Bit | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

...case this point had escaped anyone, it seems that industry isn't doing the planet any good, and our riverways may be getting the brunt of the abuse. Among the world's largest - and most traveled - waterways, the Yellow River (China), the Colorado River (U.S.) and the segment of the Nile River that runs into the Mediterranean (Africa) are in terrible shape, due mostly to agricultural and industrial run-off, as well as increased rates of evaporation. On the bright(er) side, the relatively sheltered Amazon (South America) and Congo (sub-Saharan Africa) are looking pretty robust. For the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And a Stinking, Dried-Up River Runs Through It | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Remember when the U.S. attacked Kosovo, and everybody accused the President of "wagging the dog" - attacking a Central European country to divert public attention away from a sex scandal? Well, it turns out Bubba may have just been trying to get back in the good graces of his wife. At least that's the history of the Balkan conflict according to the First Lady's latest biographer, Gail Sheehy. In her forthcoming book "Hillary's Choice," Sheehy says that at the height of Monicagate, an enraged and humiliated Hillary went eight months without talking to her husband, before calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Give You One More Chance — If You Bomb the Balkans | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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