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That first revolution, which began two centuries ago, created the technology of modern life, but at a high cost in hardship and hunger. Some experts see analogous dangers in the robot revolution. If robots can do men's work faster, better and more cheaply, then what will men do? They will be retrained for other things, the robotmakers answer. But by whom, and for what? Almost 20 years ago, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano portrayed a future society in which the elite few run the machines while the unemployable majority subsists on handouts in resentful idleness...
Many Walpole state prison inmates refused to eat Thanksgiving dinner to support a hunger strike which began earlier this month, the assistant director of a prisoner's rights group said yesterday...
...solitary-confinement prisoners who started the hunger strike November 4, only these four have continued refusing solid food. But Jacoby said the Thanksgiving occurrence shows that "they do have a lot of support from inside...
...striking prisoners take a cup of water each day and survive "by will," she said. She added that past hunger strikes have involved inmates who refused to eat for more than 40 days...
However, they have little time to be anything but virtuous. Up in the mountains or over on the butte, the cowpokes constantly deal with hunger, flood, stampedes and illness. Their trials are immediate and personal, and in overcoming them they create a kind of cactus morality play that readers want to see repeated...