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Also returning for the aquadudes are seniors Rod Phares, Jay Rossiter and John David ('85-'86), graduating junior Bruce Novis, and sophomores Bill Wolff and Peter Kaiser...
...Stanford physician and computer scientist named Edward Shortliffe. Using tools developed for AI research, Shortliffe boiled down everything he knew about diagnosing infectious blood diseases and meningitis into about 500 "if-then"rules. Rule 27, for example, said that if an organism found in a patient's blood is rod shaped, gram- negative and able to survive in the absence of oxygen, then there is a strong likelihood that the organism is a type of bacteria called Bacteroides. In tests that applied these rules to cases reported in the medical literature, MYCIN was eventually able to diagnose as well...
...parents figured the parakeets would be easy to take care of, and that I'd never let them out of their cage in my room. They were wrong on both counts. I took the parakeets out of their little jail and trained them to live on the curtain rod. At one time there were eight parakeets living on that rod, dripping like candles in old Italian restaurants. After a while it changed the whole fabric of the curtains. The birds were living on the rod, on my head, on my shoulder. I'd find a name I'd like...
...Cruiserweight Carlos "Sugar" DeLeon, from Puerto Rico, is world champion). Almost 100 of the roughly 1,000 players in major league baseball at the beginning of the season were born in Latin America. A Hispanic All-Star team might include Pitchers Fernando Valenzuela, Joaquin Andujar and Willie Hernandez; Infielders Rod Carew, Damaso Garcia and Dave Concepcion; Outfielders Tony Armas and Pedro Guerrero...
...start. Diana Ross was there, having helicoptered in after two shows in Atlantic City. So were Smokey Robinson and Little Richard and Wilson Pickett, the Four Tops and Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr. And dozens upon dozens of others. Joining in the homage were such white performers as Rod Stewart and Boy George. It seemed a once-in-a-lifetime concert, in aid of a venerated place...