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...million Number of children in Asia, out of 1.27 billion, who lack access to at least one basic human need?food, potable water, health care or shelter?according to a report by development agency Plan 350 million Number of Asian children without access to two or more basic human needs, twice as many as in sub-Saharan Africa...
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Search engines are good at matching words across websites but have struggled with nuance to answer questions in everyday language. Google today can answer basic factual queries. The next step is semantic search--looking for meaning, not just matching key words. Oren Etzioni, a University of Washington computer scientist, uses language-analysis programs to power KnowItAll, which scans documents for facts--Oswald killed J.F.K., for example. So far, KnowItAll has extracted 900 million facts--enabling it to answer questions. Nosa Omoigui, 33, a former Microsoft researcher, founded Bellevue-based Nervana, which analyzes language by linking word patterns...
...Iowa, police departments are facing a more basic problem: figuring out how to implement the laws. Just days before the new residency ban took effect, officials were scrambling to determine exactly which of the state's 6,000 registered offenders would have to move, and mapping out pedophile-free zones in places like Polk County, which has more than 1,400 registered day-care centers and 90 schools. What's more, Des Moines police sergeant Barry Arnold, who is overseeing the law in the state capital, estimates that the whereabouts of some 15% to 18% of the city's convicted...
...great e-commerce market has turned out to be anything but a layup. Even before the massive capital infusion from Yahoo!, Alibaba-Taobao was making life unexpectedly difficult for Whitman & Co. Ma, 40, is an English teacher turned Internet pioneer in China, where he started a company that provided basic information about Chinese industrial companies on the Web back in the mid-1990s. In 1999, he launched Alibaba, a business-to-business site that became profitable in 2002 and last year did about $70 million in sales. In 2003, he started Taobao?"searching for treasure" in Mandarin?and he plainly...
...Lost in the cacophony of media attention surrounding Rove's possible misdeeds is one basic fact: in the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, this Administration misled the American people regarding Iraq's development of nuclear weapons. That important fact is now virtually forgotten. Meanspirited Novak, a shill for the political right, publicly outed Wilson's wife Plame. That was the Administration's first parry to deflect public attention. And with the continuing diversion of public attention from the central issue of deception, the Administration is having things just the way it wants. Gregory J. Ryan Woodland Hills, California...