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Detroit's automakers have been trying lately to break into the market for $50,000-plus prestige cars -- a lucrative slice of the business completely dominated by the Europeans. General Motors' first entry was last year's $56,533 Cadillac Allante, which is designed and partly assembled in Italy. The Allante has flopped in the marketplace, but GM does not give up easily. Early next year the company will introduce a souped-up version of the Corvette, called...
...TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Playwright August Wilson tops his last Broadway hit, Fences, with a mystical and moving slice of life set in a black boardinghouse...
Wilson's fourth opus, The Piano Lesson, has already been produced at Yale. Like Joe Turner, it marries a naturalistic slice of life with mystic imagery. Set in 1936, it portrays a clan divided between struggling toward independence in the rural South and seeking a new life in the urban North, and it ends with a ritual exorcism. In a sense, all Wilson's plays are exorcisms, doomed but determined attempts to drive out the demons of memory. Says he: "The stigma of slavery is powerful. A few years ago, I went to a Passover service, and the first words...
...stacked cars do not run in the East, where low bridges and tunnels would slice them in half, but they are well suited to the teetering pass through the Sierra Nevadas and the run through the ruddy shadow of the Rockies. The California Zephyr route takes passengers past places they would normally miss -- like Thompson, Utah, where the presence of the train doubles the size of the town. And the Ruby Canyon, the throat-tightening Donner Pass. For additional company, there are bald eagles, elk, prairie dogs, deer springing up alongside the tracks at twilight as the car slides past...
Despite these gains, current systems operate within strict limits and too often behave more like idiots savants than experts. Second-wave systems as yet have no common sense or awareness of the world outside their narrow slice of expertise. At high-tech redoubts like Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California, scientists are planning decision-making systems that will behave more like real experts. Example: an all-purpose electronic repairman that uses knowledge and common sense about electricity to diagnose any problem put before it. At Xerox and elsewhere, other scientists are examining the very foundations of artificial intelligence...