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French adolescents, who were unborn in her heyday, flock to a Marilyn boutique in Paris' Latin Quarter and mimic the bouffant hairdos and casual dress styles of "La Marieleen." A line of Monroe dolls planned by a New York City manufacturer will include a $6,000, 16-in. porcelain model that is described as a replica of the star, with a fur coat and diamond earrings. It will make its debut next month at the American Toy Fair in New York. Last week, "Remember Marilyn" shops at Bloomingdale's New York-area department stores began offering a line...
...beginning is visible either. It is hidden in the remotest past. The tactic of camouflage that is instinctual among animals has been ornately elaborated in the human race. But no animal could mimic all the varities of mankind's surreptitiousness. Hidden or encoded information is the very mainspring of drama, suspense, excitement and adventure. The screening of information has always been indispensable to both war and peace, to murder and romance, to spying and spirituality. Extreme privacy plays a prominent role in the most ancient myths. Irascible Zeus, who intended to withhold the knowledge of fire from humans...
Wearing jeans and insignia T shirts is not always a sign of disaffection. On the contrary, many of the young people who mimic Western ways are the children of Soviet officials who buy Western clothes abroad or at state stores reserved for the elite. The less privileged must buy or cadge their status gear from Western tourists. The most prized items in any Soviet youngster's wardrobe, Adidas sneakers, are manufactured in Moscow under license from the West German footwear firm. The Voskhod factory has been turning out a million pairs of green, yellow and purple sneakers a year...
...constituency: premature babies. Studies have shown that preemies sleep better, grow faster and generally seem more contented when their incubators are fitted with waterbeds. Researchers at Stanford University also found that gently oscillating waterbeds reduce breathing difficulties and encourage normal heartbeat in sleeping preemies, perhaps because the pulsations mimic some aspects of the uterine environment. Preemie intensive care units, notes one researcher, tend to be "noisy, bright, loud places with constant activity. Anyone who has spent time there can see that the babies look more comfortable on properly regulated waterbeds...
...answer to the first question, then-Can a machine think?-is yes and no. A computer can certainly do some of the above. It can (or will soon be able to) transmit and receive messages, "read" typescript, recognize voices, shapes and patterns, retain facts, send reminders, "talk" or mimic speech, adjust, correct, strategize, make decisions, translate languages. And; of course, it can calculate, that being its specialty. Yet there are hundreds of kinds of thinking that computers cannot come close to. And for those merely intent on regarding the relationship of man to machine as a head-to-artificial-head...