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Turner's first job at Wal-Mart: cashier, store No. 231, Ada, Okla. But he did not count pennies for long. At 29 he became the youngest top executive in company history, and now Turner, 37, has been assigned to turn around Sam's Club, Wal-Mart's lagging membership-warehouse chain. Sam's profits rose just 3% last quarter, in contrast to 17% at Wal-Mart's main discount stores...
...varied as jazz and folk, stories and reported features on topics such as starting a new school year or celebrating Kwanzaa. "Because WTIP is a community station and kids are part of the community, we wanted a program that represented that," says Mary Igoe, the program director. Her daughter Ada, 17, has worked on the show for three years. "Sometimes I don't feel like doing it," Ada admits, "but I realize if we don't do it, there's nothing else out there for kids." (Ada sheepishly owns up to listening to commercial radio. "But I also listen...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A Room with a Mind of Its Own Machines with sinister minds of their own have been standard fare in popular sci-fi chillers like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stephen King's bestseller Christine. But the fiction behind these devices is rapidly becoming fact, and Ada - a room-sized artificial intelligence system on show at the 2002 Swiss National Exhibition in Neuch?tel until Oct. 20 - is living proof. Developed at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Ada is a mirror-clad room outfitted with its own electronic eyes and ears...
...honoree is selected by Counter, who asks various student cultural groups to nominate candidates, according to the show’s Co-Director Ada J. Maxwell...
...think this decision will keep employees from stepping forward with allegations of ADA violations...