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There are certain unbreakable laws to the survival story. Take an unlikely character, pluck him out of the anesthetized womb of daily life and toss him into a harsh environment. Test his physical endurance through hardship and privation, his will to live through isolation. And if at all possible, throw in a full-grown royal Bengal tiger...
Showing true pluck, Trista Rehn has recovered from being dumped in front of 18 million viewers and marshaled the courage to date another day. Last spring on the reality program The Bachelor, ABC provided one man, Alex Michel, with 25 women from among whom he was intended to choose his intended. Rehn was one of two finalists, but in the end she was thrown over for Amanda Marsh. (Marsh and Michel are said to be dating, though not engaged.) This winter, along with a new edition of The Bachelor, ABC will air The Bachelorette and has chosen Rehn, a physical...
...center is trying to do what it could not do before: pluck obscure bits of information from the flood of often irrelevant or insignificant data and connect the dots to foil a major new attack. CIA scientists are investigating exotic supercomputer programs and artificial intelligence that might help analysts link hundreds of thousands of names, places and bank accounts. Teams have even been sent to pick the brains of Hollywood scriptwriters who dream up far-fetched terror spectaculars. When the analysts return to Langley, they comb their databases to see if al-Qaeda has the capability to carry out such...
...center is trying to do what it could not do before: pluck obscure bits of information from the flood of often irrelevant or insignificant data and connect the dots to foil a major new attack. CIA scientists are investigating exotic supercomputer programs and artificial intelligence that might help analysts link hundreds of thousands of names, places and bank accounts. Teams have even been sent to pick the brains of Hollywood scriptwriters who dream up far-fetched terror spectaculars. When the analysts return to Langley, they comb their databases to see if al-Qaeda has the capability to carry out such...
...personally think that the Mainstage should be reserved for works that have already been proven,” he says. “I don’t think anyone will listen to me on this, but I think it would make great sense if the HRDC board would pluck those particular productions each year that have exceptional quality...