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...factory robot that crushed a man to death in Japan last year did little to silence the talk that machines are a threat to human preeminence. That talk has been alive ever since people first discovered that they could manufacture tools vastly superior to themselves; in Samuel Butler's satire Erewhon (1872), the citizens establish a museum of old machines in which they at once deposit and abandon their mechanical inventions, which they believed would swallow up their souls. When machines possess artificial intelligence, like computers, the human fear of being overtaken seems both more urgent and more complex...
...revelation was amended by a spokesman, Henry Catto. "Some of the Soviet missiles are more accurate," he ventured, "and some are not." Nevertheless, even if Weinberger were only half right, it would mean that the Soviet advantage in overall nuclear megatonnage was no longer counterbalanced by the superior guidance systems of U.S. warheads...
...Administration is concerned that the Soviets' superior civil defense system could embolden them in a nuclear showdown. According to the CIA, the Soviets spend an estimated $2 billion a year on civil defense and have 100,000 trained personnel. In addition they have 15,000 blast shelters to protect 110,000 government leaders and key industrial workers and fully developed plans to evacuate urban areas. With a week's warning of a nuclear attack, the CIA says, the Soviets could now save 90% of their population...
...breaks broncs and gets violently drunk. But he also reads Thucydides, has a philologist's loathing for the bad grammar of his colleagues, and shops for mushrooms like Paul Bocuse. He values the purity and simplicity of Western life but rarely enjoys it. Patrick is too busy feeling superior to cowboys, real and rhinestone. Haunted by what he calls "sadness-for-no-reason," this Hamlet in mule-ear boots admires only one thing: horses. Clopping into the sunset on a favorite mare, he exults privately: "I love this scene. It has no booze or women in it." Indeed...
...more impressive displays of naval prowess. In fact, the midshipmen of Navy would've probably rather been cruising around the Falklands Saturday that rowing on the Charles, "where the Harvard varsity lightweight crew shelled them Harvard varsity lightweight crew shelled them in a display of superior power, technique, and technology...