Compelling signs of artificial life
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Biologist Thomas Ray believes that computer-generated digital creatures can evolve into intelligent life-forms. He has tested this theory of evolution with his computer system called Tierra, in which digital creatures reproduce and behave according to evolutionary principles.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1993
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Dying by choice: an assisted suicide raises the issue anew
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The assisted suicide of Canadian Austin Bastable, which took place in Farmington Hills, MI, raises the issue of legalization once again in Canada. So far, challenges to the existing law that makes assisted suicide punishable by up to 14 years in prison have gone nowhere.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1996
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High-tech limbs: adapting to an artificial leg can be gruelling
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Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard, whose left leg was amputated in Dec 1994, has already been fitted with a prosthesis and is walking. Advances in treatment and materials have made it easier for most amputees to adjust to artificial limbs.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1995
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