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...Brandeis University announced that one of their machines had finally designed and built a simple, toylike robot, the news immediately invited scary comparisons with such Hollywood rogue robots as The Terminator and 2001: A Space Odyssey's psychopathic HAL. Some futurists, like Sun Microsystem's chief scientist Bill Joy, even warned that this might be one genie that shouldn't be let out of the bottle...
...elder birth sisters. They were still a family--had always been one--but they had given her up as one mouth too many to feed. Then they told her that her birth mother had died of an aneurysm two weeks earlier. So how was she supposed to feel now? Joy at finding her father and her sisters? Grief at 17 years without them? Anger at being given up? Gratitude for her American parents? Horror at coming so close to and then losing her birth mother? We heard her story that night on the tour bus, went to our hotel room...
...introvert. Putting himself out there is an act of enormous will. He tries and tries and tries, and then you see him withdraw into himself, switch on the autopilot and plod along. And when that happens, his capacity for work is never diminished, but his capacity for joy--the light touch a politician needs--gets lost...
...very few who were able to convert to happy moderate drinkers [BEHAVIOR, July 31]. The majority who tried to consume alcohol in moderation returned to problem drinking with disastrous results or found abstinence in recovery or 12-step programs. Why take a chance? Abstinence can bring fun and the joy of living. WILLIAM H. McGAUGH Riverside, Calif...
...listening to him debate the intricacies of a game I no longer completely understand must be similar to my aunt in Oklahoma trying to keep up with Miller on his HBO show. I can just hear her asking, "Who's this Lina Wertmuller, dear?" Because part of the joy of listening to motormouth Miller is that occasionally he'll stump you, but in the most respectful way. Rather than talk down to his audience, he simply assumes they get him, or at the very least that they know how to use the Biographical Entries section of the dictionary. Which...