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...further out are general-knowledge systems that would not be limited to a specific function or even a preset agenda but would instead be able to respond appropriately to unexpected tasks and problems. To develop such systems, a rebel generation of AI scientists believes that it is necessary to rebuild their field from the ground up. Their emphasis, says Philosopher Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, is on figuring out how people manage to accomplish the plain, everyday things that account for most human behavior, rather than on creating a mathematical model of the intellect, as an older generation...
...fortune. Somers' sister and two brothers all followed their father in alcoholism. But the real point of this grim but touching account is that parents and siblings, the drinkers and those who stoically enabled others to drink, eventually turned to Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon and were able to rebuild their sense of self and family. "Understanding brought relief and clarification," Somers concludes. "Even if the rest of your family doesn't get better...
...Nitze threw himself into the great debates of the past half-century over how America should use its power and cope with its enemies. He is one of the last of a breed of patrician policymakers who, immediately after World War II, helped rebuild Western Europe with the Marshall Plan and defend it by establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. And last week Nitze, who turns 81 in January, hovered in the background like the spirit of summits past...
...Salavador army destroyed many of the buildings on the University of El Salvador campus during the four-year military occupation, before Duarte came into power. The school reopened in 1984 but has thus far received no money from the government to rebuild its facilities...
...means that beer can be fresh and natural, made with only the essentials: water, malted barley, hops and yeast. And because of their limited distribution, microbrewers can turn out distinctive flavors. Before Prohibition, hundreds of breweries existed in the U.S. But after the repeal only large producers could rebuild, so that now a handful of breweries controls more than 90% of the market...