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Orange flavor beef ($9.50) is different enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

Orange flavor beef ($9.50) is different enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

Conventional computers function by following a chainlike sequence of detailed instructions. Although very fast, their processors can perform only one task at a time. This lockstep approach works best in solving problems that can be broken down into simpler logical pieces. The processors in a neural- network computer, by contrast, form a grid, much like the nerve cells in the brain. Since these artificial neurons are interconnected, they can share information and perform tasks simultaneously. This two-dimensional approach works best at recognizing patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Brainpower in a Box | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...argument, that the plot to kill the President was even wider and more sinister than previously imagined, will seem credible chiefly to the already converted, among whom are surely people who also believe that Martians are sending them messages through the fillings in their teeth. There is a simpler possibility that Libra inventively skirts: a frustrated, angry man looked out a window, watched the President ride by, and shot him dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reimagining Death in Dallas LIBRA | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...leaves the reader to guess how he would answer the simpler importunities: a "pleasing request to sit on the pavement for two days outside the Russian Embassy," or invitations to memorial services for departed rivals (though these are "more satisfying than learning they have published a new book"). It is the more drearily typical epistles that raise his ire and ironic spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Special Delivery UNSENT LETTERS | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

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