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The surrogate mother, Shannon Boff, 23, of Redford Township, Mich., is an old pro at the stand-in trade: she had a baby last year through the standard artificial-insemination procedure in which the fertilized egg was hers. "I think I'm going into retirement," says Boff, a married student...
No one doubts that the VoiceWriter will be a technical marvel, considering Kurzweil's past innovations. In 1974, four years out of M.I.T., he borrowed $150,000, set up his own company and developed the Kurzweil Reading Machine. Able to scan words on a printed page and then read them...
Today Kurzweil's peers are corporate giants like IBM and AT&T, and the competition is tougher. Yet the boy wonder, now 38, is still out in front. In 1982 his Waltham, Mass.-based company, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, developed the first computer capable of recognizing a substantial number of spoken...
The two performers who spend the bulk of the play on stage, Durham and Forsythe, are both barely adequate for their roles. Durham plays melodiously, but his repertoire is too limited for the length of the production (just under two hours). Forsythe lacks the emotional range that the role of...
Their deaths are tragic, but no more so than the death of any human being, a soldier killed in a war or a civilian killed by a drunk driver. Nancy Reagan agreed to serve as honorary chairman "to lend legitimacy to the fund." What she and others do not understand...