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...surprised some people -- why would he give away secrets -- but Kasparov himself uses a computer chess program as a tool to help improve his game, and he should be able to learn from working with the IBM scientists."The Real Game"Chung-Jen Tan, who heads IBM's parallel processing research department as well as the Deep Blue team, sees chess as merely a convenient, off-the-shelf benchmark to test cool technology, an effective proof for a tool that will soon be assigned to managing other facets of our lives," Dowell notes. The most immediate application? A process...
...sitcom Kirk, for example, asks us to accept that Kirk Cameron could be a Greenwich Village illustrator raising three children and dating a doctor who looks like Elle MacPherson. More demanding still is Simon, a sitcom about a dim-witted TV executive that seems to be set in some parallel universe where grown men take baths in front of their friends...
Professor Robert Coles transports many of us to parallel universes in which the "call to service" appears no less than compelling; they inspire exceptional sympathy with the disadvantaged. Such sympathy represents a great motivation for volunteers, an empathic attachment with clients served, leading to a sense of reward (ethical or otherwise) from such interaction...
...this argument lays to rest any crudely deterministic model of social change. Yet it provides us with a bit more sociological instruction than Donne's parallel insight that "No man is an island." For it suggests an essential unity to our social existence; that, for instance, there can be no society of opulence without complementary austerity, and that the middle class depends for its [nomenclatural] existence on the perpetuation of a lower...
Callow draws telling word pictures of Welles' early years. But to evoke a film, it helps to have moving pictures, and The Battle over Citizen Kane, which runs the lives of Welles and Hearst on parallel tracks until they collide in 1941, is a two-hour tornado of a documentary, with rare clips of the 1936 Macbeth, some quaint home movies of Hearst's costume parties, reminiscences by such Welles colleagues as lighting designer Abe Feder (still jazzy after all these years) and William Alland (who played the reporter in Kane). Best is the cogent narration, written by Lennon...