Word: objects
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...charge. Trachoma was the most common medical reason for sending immigrants back to their native countries. (In fact, out of 12 million or so people who came to Ellis, most during the peak years of 1900-24, only 250,000 were turned away.) Sophie may have been the unwitting object of another American worry: that young single women would become prostitutes. So great was that concern that if a woman claimed she was engaged, immigration officials actually hunted up her fiance and saw to it that they were mar ried before relinquishing control over the newcomer. Authorities wired Sophie...
...voters of Uruguay, who have lived for seven years under a harsh, military-backed regime, trooped obediently to the polls last week in a national plebiscite. The object of the exercise: approval or rejection of a new 238-article constitution giving the military an even more pervasive role in the future political life of the country. Under almost any other authoritarian regime in the world, the outcome would have been foregone. Not in Uruguay. To the acute embarrassment of the military, the constitution was resoundingly defeated, with 54% voting...
...allows would-be conglomerate makers to wheel and deal their way to paper empires. In Profit and Loss ($15) players trade art, antiques, real estate and stocks. Capitalism itself is put to the test in Class Struggle ($12), in which players rep resent different classes in society and the object of the game is to win the revolution...
...stupid to the engineers trying to educate them. A robot can cope with complex mathematical formulas, of course, but when it sees something through its TV camera, it has a hard time translating the two-dimensional image into three-dimensional reality. A robot instructed to look for a triangular object will waste valuable time fingering cubes and cylinders before
...computer scientist working on the Navy's underwater explorer: "We humans have been manipulating things ever since we were children, so we're extremely good at it. But if you analyze everything that's going on when you do a simple thing like picking up an object, it's really very complicated." Adds David Grossman, I.B.M.'s manager of automation research: "It's like trying to write down how to tie a shoe...