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...American road cars, but it needs to recapture that traditional element from a younger customer base. Cadillac really needs to make its breakthrough as a global player. Saturn's image is just perfect. All they need to do is execute product growth." Whew! Interpretation: GM needs to sell a ton of cars...
...here's the thing--Pinsky does have something to say. Something to say about America, and he says it well. His 1979 collection, "An Explanation of America," is, believe it or not, actually moving. There is a ton in the book. It's a long-weekend affair; the book needs time to sit for a while. Pinsky divides the book into three parts, each part an aspect of the American experience: "Its Many Fragments," "Its Great Emptiness," "Its Everlasting Possibility." This should give you some sense of the tone...
Like any other star athlete, Johnson has done a ton of endorsements; now his own money is on the line. He and Sony are partners in the $8 million-plus theater investment, including the Magic Theatre at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South Central Los Angeles, a top-grossing movie house. "Everybody in Hollywood said it wouldn't work," Johnson says of the L.A. deal. "They laughed at us, and they laughed at Sony. Now they want to know how they can help." The theater's success has given an assist to other businesses there. Like Greenbriar, the mall...
...part, Mexico, even as its diplomats fulminated about the dire consequences of decertification, took action to give Clinton cover. On Wednesday police arrested a drug trafficker named Oscar Malherbe de Leon. On Thursday the Mexican navy burned a ton of seized cocaine on the resort island of Cozumel. More substantively, Time has learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan...
...Kasparov, and in the ensuing games he mercilessly exposed his opponent's weaknesses. Deep Blue is a data-grinding engine of staggering proportions: a 1.5-ton supercomputer able to sort 40 billion combinations in an average three-minute move, shining its searchlight far into a game's future to find a winning strategy. When your opponent is Kasparov, though, it's (thus far) impossible for even a 1.5-ton supercomputer to search far enough to be sure it chooses wisely. "Deep Blue sees everything in the searchlight very well," says research scientist Murray Campbell. "But after that, in the black...