Word: throughly
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Robots sometimes seem remarkably 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...
Yet perhaps the most endearing virtue of big spenders is that they are wonderfully entertaining. There is nothing like them. If a conga line could be made up extending from Qin Shihuang and Elagabalus, through Hearst, the sheiks and Allan Carr, we would need no Broadway shows. It is not...
The fierce, splendid land between Iran and India has always tempted conquerors: Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and scores of others preceded last year's Soviet invaders into Afghanistan. But the tribesmen there have proved to be as resistant as their terrain-from the desert of Nimruz, where men were once...
As Britain's most eligible bachelor, Prince Charles produces front-page palpitations every time he is seen with a marriageable young woman. Until now, however, Buckingham Palace has kept a discreetly stiff upper lip when Fleet Street attempted to handicap the Prince's love life. Thus it was...
DIED. Rachel Roberts, 53, Welsh-born actress who rose to international prominence through her portrayals of working-class women in such English films as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and This Sporting Life (1963); of as yet undetermined causes; in Los Angeles. After divorcing Actor Rex Harrison in 1971...