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...Tamiya and Hasegawa were the only companies that made scale models of Japanese imperial navy vessels. The American companies were squeezing out endless reproductions of the aircraft carrier Enterprise and the battleship Missouri: model kits as cookie-cutterish as the ships they represented. American naval vessels seemed mass produced - Yorktown-class carriers, Iowa-class battleships, Portland-class cruisers. Credit Henry Ford for the assembly lines that won the war. But blame him for the blandness of the fleet. What was the difference between the Enterprise and the Yorktown? The Iowa and the Missouri? None that I could see from...
...crap, but on the 365th, Buffett comes to town and we slip away to Margaritaville. Being a Parrothead isn't without its responsibilities, however. Like Gypsies in the Palace, Parrotheads know that the good times aren't free, that giving back is part of the Pascagoula Run. BETH MEISNER Yorktown...
...Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, ending the American Revolution...
...thinking. Or rather, Deep Blue's 512 processors are reviewing 200 million chess positions per second in order to create the illusion that Deep Blue is thinking. And it isn't really Deep Blue either. It's what the guys at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, call Deeper Blue: the second generation of the original Deep Blue, the infamous chess program that one year ago threw a stunning uppercut to human self-esteem by winning the first game of its six-game match against world champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov, of course, went...
BORN: Aug. 7, 1928, Elizabeth City, N.C. EDUCATION: College of William and Mary, B.A., 1949; Georgetown U, J.D., 1956 FAMILY: Wife, Laura; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Air Force, 1951-53 OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Virginia Senate, 1968-82; U.S. House, 1982- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1668, Yorktown...