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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important, unlike any conventional computer, the brain can learn from its mistakes. Researchers have tried for years to program computers to mimic the brain's abilities, but without success. Now a growing number of designers believe they have the answer: if a computer is to function more like a person and less like an overgrown calculator, it must be built more like a brain, which distributes information across a vast interconnected web of nerve cells, or neurons...
...often visits her grandmother, with whom she was especially close in the pre-Leonard days. Since Bianca and Sherri moved, Bianca's affections have shifted in the direction of her mother. Last November Bianca wrote in her school journal, "I would like to say something nice to a special person, Mom. My mom always stand by my side when I needed her. My mom always love me, took very good care of me. And always teached me wrong to right. I always love my mother." Mother and daughter grew up together. In some respects, they were raised more as sisters...
...otherwise complicated and often hectic pace of Katie Davis' life. Much like the boy in Lizard Music, Katie will be spending the summer hanging out with her half-sister Mona Wessels, 16. "It was weird when Mona came to live with us," says Katie. "It was like a new person, like we're adopting someone because you are taking someone from your family who doesn't live there into your family again. It's a funny feeling. It's nice but it's kinda weird...
More black faces on the bench, or even at the stenographer's table, might prove to be just as helpful. "When a black person walks into a court and sees a white judge, white prosecutors, white clerks, white stenographers, do you think they're going to believe they're going to get justice?" asks Franklin Williams, chairman of the New York State Judicial Commission on Minorities. Black attorneys frequently complain that they are not accorded the same respect that their white colleagues receive. Archibald Murray, executive director of the Legal Aid Society in New York City, says black members...
DESCRIPTION: Average sentences for blacks and for whites convicted of murder, rape, kidnaping, robbery, arson, drug trafficking and drug possession, as well as for all crimes; color illustration of black person and white person on scales...