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...guns were relatively silent in Beirut last January when TIME published "Children of War," a memorable cover story by Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt about children who grow up not in playgrounds but on the battlefields of the world. When Israel invaded Lebanon six weeks ago, Rosenblatt returned to Beirut to try to find the children he had interviewed. What he discovered during his search appears in the form of a seven-day journal, part of this week's cover story...
...deal in words. Several of their markets are now dangerously depleted. To the victors, meanwhile, belong the spoils: body counts, colossal costs and some temporary improvement in their fortunes. To the rest, a feeling of helpless stupidity tied earnestly, as ever, to figments of hope. ?By Roger Rosenblatt...
...last an article on computer intelligence that does not waste time worrying about what to do when computers get smarter than we are. Roger Rosenblatt is right in saying that a machine can think only in limited terms. But he understates the point of my book What Computers Can't Do and so sets the limits too high. I argued that computers will never be able to understand even simple children's stories of the sort easily comprehended by any three-year-old. In light of such limitations, people who worry about the advent of even mildly intelligent...
...Essay "The Mind in the Machine" [May 3], Roger Rosenblatt asks if "anyone but a handful of zealots and hysterics seriously believes that the human mind is genuinely imperiled by devices of its own manufacture." The answer is yes, and the clearest example is thermonuclear weapons...
...Roger Rosenblatt's excellent piece on the Anglo-American relationship does, however, perpetuate a myth. America did not "save England's neck." This is particularly true of World War II. For well over two years America slept while Britain held Hitler's forces at bay. By the time the U.S. awakened, the Battle of Britain had been...