Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Someday, say the futurists, our streets will be filled with computer-controlled cars so "smart" they will make the prototype I'm riding in look like a brain-damaged Model T. These high-IQ roadsters will, perhaps within our lifetime, speed down smart highways under their own command, turning drivers into passengers, saving billions of dollars and transforming commuters' lives in the process...
...first state of the old Midwest, Wisconsin has long been on the forefront of political change. The G.O.P. has roots to the progressive politics of 19th century German settlers, and the state's welfare system served as a model for the 1996 national welfare-reform bill. In a state known for harsh winters and short summers, favorite pastimes include watching hockey and the Green Bay Packers with their devoted "Cheesehead" fans. The Badger State has nine House seats, and with two being vacated by the G.O.P. and another held by a freshman, the Republicans need an escape act similar...
...Additionally, while many of the buildings that leaked this past weekend are normally waterproof, others have a long and unresolved history of leakage. For instance, the basement of Thayer hall, which was soaked by this last storm, also leaked during the summer, damaging some computers belonging to the Harvard Model Congress...
Calling the series of debates "terrific," Nicholas T. Mitropoulos, executive director of the Kennedy School's Taubman Center For State and Local Government says he feels these debates can serve as a model for future campaigns...
...contact Rick Borovoy through that Reliable model T of cyberspace, the telephone. "Your name sounds familiar," he says. Briefly, I sketch out the highway map of my life: Pennsylvania childhood, high school in Connecticut, college in Iowa, assorted rites of passage in New Mexico. "That must be it," he interrupts. Borovoy used to work with the Navajos there; I'd done some work with the northern Pueblos. "At least we found something," he says, satisfied that our lives may in fact have intersected at some point...