Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most notorious computer life-forms are the electronic viruses that have been injected, inadvertently or maliciously, into computer networks. Like real viruses, these programs are strings of instructional code that have the ability to infect a host computer and reproduce without restraint, sometimes causing considerable damage. But computer viruses are not really alive. They do not evolve or metabolize. And they are created, fully formed, by human programmers. The proponents of artificial life want their life-forms to create themselves, to emerge from nonliving components just as life on earth arose from the primordial ooze...
...Ford stands out. Because of Ford's characteristic calm in nearly all his other movies (and supposedly off-screen, too) he is an excellent choice for Sabich. The moments when Sabich actually does get frustrated, or lose control, or yell, contrast powerfully with his character's general self-restraint. When Sabich discovers the county medical examiner is falsifying records, for example, his voice rises and shakes. A single tear trickles slowly down his face near the end of the movie, and the drama Ford creates seems a lot stronger than that manufactured by a typical compilation of 100-decibel Hollywood...
...drug was given to patients to help them lose weight and stop smoking, despite a lack of solid evidence that it is effective for those purposes. The experience with Prozac underscores the truth about drugs in general: they all carry risks and should be used with care and restraint...
...vague, if it can be defined at all, promising not to be obscene is absolutely useless. The art world probably would benefit more if artists were forced to sign pledges promising not to be boring, rather than not to be obscene. The Helms rules amount to an unjustifiable prior restraint on free expression...
...make of this story? Is the treatment a miracle cure? Or is it a mirage that cruelly raises the hopes of AIDS sufferers -- the medical equivalent of cold fusion? No one, and certainly not journalists, can know the answers. The case illustrates the press's growing lack of restraint in medical coverage, especially where AIDS is concerned. CNN called the treatment "experimental and controversial," but by leading off newscasts with the story and cutting to the hospital for frequent live reports, the network was in effect trumpeting the blood-heating procedure as a major development. That outraged many medical experts...