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Students who are hot under the collar about the temperature of their rooms can stop steaming: as of Columbus Day, Harvard's heat will be running on a computer-controlled thermostat. And until that date, a phone call to the "Hotline" can lead to those few keypresses that make the steam flow and fingers thaw...
...aisle, slinging curses and entreaties. The gray madonna and her smudges of children hover outside the church, despair incarnate. The glib hustler in designer jeans glides down the movie line. The kids with the grimy windshield rags orbit the intersection. The old man with no eyes sits on the steam grates in winter in a wet cloud of pain. The obsequious panhandler waits outside the automated-teller machines, where wallets are full and walls are transparent. Somehow, always never seemed so often...
Comfort has not been the only thing destroyed by this summer's steam-bath weather. Some lives have been snuffed out too. Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Robert Stein counts 39 heat-related deaths so far in Chicago and its environs. Missouri has registered 30 deaths and 572 cases of heat-related illness. (The term encompasses both heatstroke and other conditions, like heart trouble, that are aggravated by the hot weather.) Many of the victims are old, poor or both. But not all: two men in their 20s died competing in New York City footraces...
...Diego for the second international conference on neural networks. For five days, they studied the recent advances in this form of artificial intelligence and pondered its bright future. Before long, Tom Schwartz, an industry consultant in Mountain View, Calif., told the crowd, "these machines will be recognized as the steam engines of the 21st century...
...campaign is moving full steam ahead with plenty of momentum from the convention," he said...