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Usually a paragon of sound investment practices and prudent money management, Harvard recently followed the Star Wars fad and put $200,000 into one of the country's first robot corporations...
Douglas County Sheriff Jerry Maple decided that there was no choice but to try to disarm the bomb. Though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had offered to lend a robot with mechanical claw and television-camera eye, the authorities relied instead on a local firefighter, who attached a small explosive device to the bomb, which was supposed to either destroy the control box or detonate the crate's contents. At 3:42 p.m., authorities crossed their fingers and set off the small explosive...
...faithful robot orbiting Mars finally runs...
Whether you call it the "robot rule" or the "faithful delegate principle" it is obvious that F(3c) removes from delegates any shred of responsibility or freedom of choice and makes their judgment completely irrelevant. They merely become a human incarnation of the mathematical proportions of the primaries...
Maxi Gnauck, 15, an East German sprite with closely cropped hair and a tiny chassis (4 ft. 10 in., 71 lbs.), went first on the vault. Her robot-like consistency cracked under the pressure, and she had to settle for a 9.75. Next up was Yelena Davidova, 18, an elfin Soviet with a Dorothy Hamill haircut, on the parallel bars. Only 4 ft. 8 in., 75 lbs., she had scored a stunning 10 in the floor exercises the night before, mixing rubber-body tumbling and kiddie-porn dance routines (hip grinding to a snake charmer's song...