Word: mp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chess champions. As Anatoli Karpov was falling a game behind Gary Kasparov in the world chess championship at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, an upset of a different sort was taking place in Denver's Radisson Hotel. The world's top-ranked chess machine, a $14 million Cray X-MP/ 48 supercomputer running a program called Blitz, was about to lose the North American computer-chess championship to Hitech, a rack of custom-made silicon chips attached to a $20,000 Sun minicomputer...
...fact, the former MP from Meriden, England (just east of Birmingham) has only one semester of teaching experience under big belt. For the last 30 years, he's been spending his time in academic research, journalism, and Parliament, moving from one to the next...
...nothing impressed Thompson like the arm. It was black and clad in green fatigues. Loren Jenkins of the Washington Post saw it in a garbage can outside his hotel. "My God," he yelled, "look at that." It turned out to be a prosthesis, apparently planted by a prankish MP, who splattered it with ketchup for dramatic effect. "We hung Goebbels for jokes like that," declared Thompson. He demanded an explanation. An Army public affairs officer told him, with a straight face: "Sir, that's our disarmament policy...