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Here's one way to spend $30 million: Fujitsu, rolling in cash from its profitable semiconductor and computer business, is investing that healthy sum to create an "artificial life" program for personal computers. The flashy new technology will one day let real-world humans breed E-world "creatures" that will help out with mundane computer tasks. Possible examples include byte-based Rottweilers that will fetch your electronic newspaper and virtual vultures that can nibble away at electronic "trash...
...this year a little too serious. The most maddening aspect of the show has been the increasing and incongruous presence of real-world issues. In the past months Melrose has tackled child abuse, outing and now date rape. Message drama has its place on television, but not within the context of a show whose characters utter lines like, "You think I want a life of peanut butter and jelly? I want lobster. I want caviar. I want style." Perhaps the beginning of the end really came toward the climax of this last season, when Amanda had cancer. She didn...
...wrong. I don't believe that having more courses in ethnic studies is going to rebuild the slums or feed orphan kids. That would be nice, but somehow unrealistic. I just think this kind of scholarship has academic merit. I think it has real-world relevance...
...says Ng's character on television is a person quite different from his real-world friend...
...shouldn't adults be able to choose whom they live with? Yes, and they can. We can choose to live with up to 15 other people. Beyond that, students do not need the right to choose. When they leave Harvard and live in the real world with all the real-world considerations, they can choose what neighborhoods they feel comfortable in, but until then, Harvard should be able to randomly dictate diversity...