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...found on the stamps may be compared to Kaczynski's. The most daunting task, and one that may never be complete, is to determine how he chose his victims--how, in his omnivorous reading of magazines, newspapers, journals and academic texts, particular names caught his attention and sparked his rage...
Showing off their real talent--for publicity--the Sex Pistols announced a reunion tour last week, complete with shameless p.r. stunts like an offer to hold a benefit concert for Princess Di. A bit too wrinkled to carry off anarchic rage these days, the Pistols nevertheless do a good impression of greed. "We don't see eye to eye," says Johnny Rotten of his band members. "But we have a common interest: your money...
Besides, judging by the hubbub over the Kasparov match, even if computers could pass the test, debate would still rage over whether they think. No one doubted Deep Blue's chess skills, but many doubted whether it is a thinking machine. It uses "brute force"--zillions of trivial calculations, rather than a few strokes of strategic Big Think. ("You don't invite forklifts to weight-lifting competitions," an organizer of exclusively human chess tournaments said about the idea of man-vs.-machine matches.) On the other hand, there are chess programs that work somewhat like humans. They size...
...fights that war from his side, Peres must contend with the sometime fecklessness of Arafat, the rage of the Israelis, the bitterness of the Palestinians and the mistrust of his own military--all while an election rapidly approaches. So far, he has navigated quite coolly, but he sails a narrow channel, and the seas may well grow higher...
...last month they received a letter from the Jorges' lawyer demanding that the boy and girl undergo genetic testing. "We do not want to unduly disrupt your lives," the letter read without intended irony, "but rather to help facilitate a relationship between my clients and the children." Trembling with rage, the wife told the Orange County Register, "I don't want to talk about it. These were my eggs...