Word: signal
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...avoiding disaster, Arafat has in his year of governing put an irreversible cast on the peace process and on progress toward true Palestinian independence, and that is surely a signal accomplishment. The Palestinians, however, are wondering what kind of society that independence will bring them. "I need to feel improvements in my daily life," says Nabil Abu Muaileq, a civil engineer in Gaza City, "not just see big leaders on TV talking about it." Hisham Saleh, a butcher in the West Bank city of el-Bireh, pauses from his work and says, "Judging from what's happened in Gaza...
...free is she -- or will she remain? As the week went on, it became apparent that there was nothing simple, or certain, about Suu Kyi's liberty. It was tempting to imagine a Burmese equivalent of the release of Nelson Mandela: in other words, a signal that the 21 generals who govern the country through the State Law and Order Restoration Council, known by the acronym SLORC, intend to take Burma in a new direction with some important, if undefined, role for the steely lady...
...Ridge episode. Now congressional investigators must confront several questions: Did Kahoe act on the orders of a superior, possibly Potts? And did the destroyed papers contain the identity of the official who issued the shoot-on-sight order? At least one FBI agent has charged that Potts gave the signal. Potts insists...
Computer scientists come at the problem from a different direction. The mind is something like a parallel-processing computer, they argue, and consciousness is simply the coordinated signal-processing of individual "agents." These agents, described as simple computer programs, sound a bit like the Damasios' convergence zones. Computer scientists and neuroscientists seem to be arriving at theories that look, in some ways, very similar...
...Grady incident, which will be reviewed in Congress this week, will fault U.S. intelligence snafus -- and may also criticize the Marines for allowing glory-hungry senior officers to go along on the rescue. At least four hours before the downing, U.S. spy organizations had solid intelligence from signal intercepts that surface-to-air missile sites were in the area O'Grady was flying over, but that information never got to his squadron. Three minutes before the shootdown, the National Security Agency knew sam radars were tracking O'Grady's F-16, but an allied command plane lacking key U.S. communications...