Word: screening
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...from our very first encounter with al Gashey on screen, it's hard to ignore the sense that it was the narrative of his own life that landed him in Munich on that fateful day, guarding the downstairs doorway to the apartment housing the Israelis as his comrades went upstairs to begin the siege. Counterposed with images of Spitzer's happy wedding are images of the squalor of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, as al Gashey recounts his family's expulsion from Israel in 1948, and their subsequent despair. It's only when he joins a guerrilla organization that...
...seems America's kids are spending far too much time in front of a screen and too little learning how to interact with other human beings. In a statement that probably left many in the high tech industry shuddering with fear, the Alliance called for a moratorium on computers in elementary school classrooms. The group calls instead on reading and creative group play to help students develop the skills they need in and out of school...
...nothing of systems intelligent enough to play championship chess, but Pollack and Lipson took a giant step out of the virtual world. After they hooked their computer to a $50,000 commercial plastic model-making machine, it produced actual offspring, not just a model on a computer screen. The only human intervention was installing the robot's little motor and computer-programmed microchip ("neurons...
...eccentric farmer to object to paving. A hard road, well maintained, would reduce a working farmer's work, make it easier from him to bring crops and dairy cans and livestock to market. Maybe it is offensively yuppie of me to sit out here wiping dust off my computer screen and hoarding my elite seclusion. (On the other hand, I pay honestly for it by driving two and a half hours if I want to go to the city...
...love the challenge of your crossword puzzle [Aug. 7] while sitting under a tree in the yard in summer or in front of a warm fire during winter. I don't love the challenge in front of a computer screen. Please print it in your magazine again so that we don't have to spend our entire life in front of a screen! MARIE FOGE Novato, Calif...