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...hill. It's dynamic!" Equally fearless are those riders near Vail, Colo., who take helicopters to the high country or ride the ski lifts up the mountains and then charge through the backcountry trails. "I got into mountain biking to escape," says Jonathan Nardone, 34, a pinball-machine repairman from West Islip, N.Y., who bikes in New England. "I deal with people all day long and want to get into nature...
...systems as yet have no common sense or awareness of the world outside their narrow slice of expertise. At high-tech redoubts like Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California, scientists are planning decision-making systems that will behave more like real experts. Example: an all-purpose electronic repairman that uses knowledge and common sense about electricity to diagnose any problem put before it. At Xerox and elsewhere, other scientists are examining the very foundations of artificial intelligence. Their aim: a theory that will enable them to build computers that can step outside the limits of a specific expertise...
...Interactive Communications) are giving the first practical hints about what the second-wave revolution will mean. Employing the reasoning of a special Xerox team of diagnosticians, RIC reads data from a copier's internal instruments, senses when something is about to go wrong, and sends a report to a repairman, who can warn the customer that an imminent breakdown can be avoided by taking appropriate steps. Theoretically, Xerox copiers hooked up to RIC systems should never break down...
...Utah lures skiers to the slopes of its Wasatch Mountains, but the state is also home to Fundamentalists who find the 20th century anathema. About 20 miles northeast of the ski resort of Alta, the Singer clan nursed its cheerless fantasies. Founded by John Singer, an American-born TV repairman who spent his formative years in Nazi Germany, the family first ran afoul of the law when Singer pulled his children from school to shield them from the influence of drugs and racial integration. His continued defiance led in 1979 to a siege that ended when police rushed Singer while...
Richardson, of Oakland, Calif., joined the Army in 1968. His specialty is tank turret repairman and he is qualified as an instructor. He is assigned to the 601st Ordnance Battalion, which is based at Aberdeen...