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...permanent zip code. No phone lines. They pay no property taxes. Their pad has wheels. It's a 35-ft., $65,000 Fleetwood Southwind, one of the thousands of recreational vehicles, or RVs, that Americans are calling home. "Oh, we have a home, all right," Sutherland likes to quip. "It just depends on where we are at the moment...
Reti was joking, of course. Grandmasters typically look about five moves ahead in a given position, and sometimes many more. But Reti's quip captures something at the heart of human chess-playing ability: intuition. And in so far as humans rely on intuition rather than calculation for the decisions of everyday life, his statement captures what is at the heart of human intelligence more generally...
...Under My Skin, Sinatra even surpasses the vocal on his famous Songs for Swingin' Lovers version, which really belongs to arranger Nelson Riddle. And as wonderful as that studio performance is, it doesn't include an audibly rapturous female audience member or an unalloyed Sinatra quip in response: "Get your hand off that broad...
...mentioned cell biologist Ursula Goodenough's quip that if cloning were perfected, "there'd be no need for men." If your article had been written by Jorge Luis Borges, Annie Proulx, Thomas Pynchon or another author with a penchant for serendipitous character names, I'd know for certain that "Goodenough" was herself a clone. JONATHAN BRENNER BALKIND London...
...facts, consideration of the available 'options,' and application of logical decisions...Like no Defense Secretary before him, he has seized control of the Pentagon. Military leaders can offer advice, but McNamara makes the decisions...His love of computers, and his own computerlike mind, have led to the bitter quip that IBM really stands for 'I, Bob McNamara...