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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...games usually commence on Friday night--for the staunchest participants on Thursday--and often persist into the wee hours of Sunday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intoxicating Games | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

Speaking before an ethnically diverse audience, the Queen lamented tensions that still persist in the region and warned that negotiations are in danger of collapsing entirely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queen Noor Speaks on Peace Talks | 10/9/1996 | See Source »

...Zyuganov. But they really voted for the lesser of two evils," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. For Yeltsin, the chief problem is his rapidly failing health. While a smiling, confident Yeltsin cast his ballot from a rest home outside Moscow, rumors that he continues to suffer a heart ailment persist. But for today, anyway, the Russian president was in full campaign mode, reminding Russians to get out and vote. A high voter turnout, which in many areas ran between 60 and 65 percent, was considered vital for Yeltsin's reelection. A smaller turnout would have helped Zyuganov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin the Winner, Early Polling Shows | 7/3/1996 | See Source »

...course, it's always possible that Cog does have a kind of consciousness--a consideration that neither Dennett nor Chalmers rules out. But even then the mystery would persist, for you could still account for all the behavior by talking about physical processes, without ever mentioning feelings. And so too with humans. This, says Chalmers, is the mystery of the "extraness" of consciousness. And it is crystallized, not resolved, by advances in artificial intelligence. Because however human machines become--however deftly they someday pass the Turing test, however precisely their data flow mirrors the brain's data flow--everything they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN MACHINES THINK? | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...College Pride of Springfield came out on fire. Before the match even began, the squad's rousing chants could be heard echoing through the halls. In contrast, the Crimson appeared to be flat and unemotional. But this lack of enthusiasm would not persist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Volleyball Can't Get Past Springfield | 3/14/1996 | See Source »

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