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Although he suspended discussion of the proposal in Monday night's meeting, Independent Thomas W. Danehy backed Walsh's proposal in an interview yesterday. "I've been saying that for 20 years," he said. "Then you won't have this sort of patchwork zoning process that we're going through...
Such skepticism is understandable in Pantasma. The golden patchwork of maize and tobacco fields that spreads outward across the valley is halted halfway up the surrounding mountains by a wavy line of thick rain forest. It is ideal guerrilla cover, and the contras have used it to put Pantasma under a siege that has lifted only as the truce has taken hold, and then just partly. A dusk-to-dawn curfew continues, and government troops still patrol the winding mountain roads leading into Pantasma...
...rates vary from one procedure or laboratory to another, but Pap tests and screenings for cholesterol are among those that are most often incorrect. The Federal Government monitors only labs that serve Medicare patients or do interstate business. State laws have been described by one investigator as a hopeless patchwork. Some laboratories submit to proficiency reviews in order to be certified by private professional groups, but thousands of other privately run labs are unregulated...
...many dance recitals, there is a patchwork plot tying the dances together. The show follows six children around after school: one runs away from her fighting parents, one strikes out in Little League, one (now, we must make some concessions to this storyline) is harassed by chunks of a brick wall that turn into living beings after she has shined their shapes onto the wall with an overhead projector, two are frightened away by a store with dancing groceries, and one is drawn into the events of a movie he is watching. Naturally, the six dejected children band together...
...Stanford, has formed a Palo Alto-based group called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility to oppose the use of second-wave systems in military applications. Winograd believes that isolating experts from the unforeseen consequences of their decisions is "perhaps the most ! subtle and dangerous consequence of the patchwork rationality of present expert systems." He is specifically concerned about the use of expert systems in President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars system. In the 1960s, Winograd notes, a computer system announced a Soviet attack when radar signals bounced off the moon, an occurrence that had not been anticipated...