Word: wined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...babes galore. The masculine ideal of popular culture has long since ceased to be the man in the gray-flannel suit, trudging dutifully between office and home. It has become the millionaire hoop star with a stable of interchangeable gal pals, or the yuppie bachelor investing in his home wine cellar...
...show. At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand of the 16th century scholar-artist Chu Yun-ming, whose fierce cursive brush writing came to be revered as an example of moral probity in itself...
...problem with artificial intelligence is that it is artificial. It will remain so and will never be like the real thing. It is just like artificial honey or artificial wine. If, along with matter and energy, information was counted as a basic building block, we could enhance man's understanding of nature and reconcile theology with science in many ways. It can be shown that even in mathematics, the number of problems that can be formulated is indefinite. There are always questions left to be answered, and there is always room for God. PETER FISCHER Bremen, Germany Via E-mail...
This pristine image of wealthy young men downing cheri and porte wine has stuck with Eliot throughout numerous attempts by College administrators to break down house stereotypes...
...critiques. As for the extraness problem, the question of what function consciousness serves: if you're a strict materialist and believe "the mind is the brain," then consciousness must have a function. After all, the brain has a function, and consciousness is the brain. Similarly, turning the water into wine seems a less acute problem if the wine is water...