Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some thought him a "sicko" and "a loner," no one could have foreseen the depth of evil in their midst. At the local morgue, hospital chaplain Jim Benson comforted parents as they identified their children. But no words, no memorials or visits by the Queen will make it easier for a parent to comprehend that a son, a daughter is never going to wake again. After one mother looked at her dead child, she turned to Benson and said, "My baby always sleeps like that...
RODNEY BROOKS GUSHES LIKE A first-time parent about the things his baby can do. "It sits there waving its arm around, watching its arm, reaching for things," he says. These are pretty standard tricks for newborn humans, of course, but then Brooks' "baby" (nicknamed Cog) isn't exactly human. It's a vaguely person-shaped concoction of metal, plastic and silicon, with cameras where its eyes should be and eight 32-bit microprocessors for a brain. Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world the way babies do, programming and reprogramming itself through...
...Clintons got into the investment, how the McDougals tried--and failed--to get them out of it, how Hillary all but single-handedly managed the investment after 1986, how she dealt with the banks that lent them money, including negotiating a loan renewal with a bank whose parent company was trying to get her husband to sign legislation it wanted. Much of what appears here will seem at odds with statements made by the President and First Lady, some of them under oath. At various times, they or their spokespeople have alleged that the Clintons had virtually nothing...
Susan McDougal was aware that something was going on between Hillary, 1st Ozark, and officials at the parent, Twin City. One day Hillary called, asking Susan to get a copy of a Whitewater document and drop it off at the Twin City headquarters in North Little Rock, which Susan did. Then, soon after, Susan received a call from the Governor himself. "Would you mind," he began, "Hillary wants to look at the documents" to support Susan and James' calculations on the yellow pad. So Hillary didn't trust her, Susan thought. Well, she'd be only too happy to give...
...down at its universal level, the term describes an unseen and mischievous jujitsu of history. It suggests the potent emotional antimatter that begins to glow like a dark crystal when people become disconnected from, and learn to mistrust or hate, the powers that control them (government, political process, corporation, parent, spouse...