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...Atlanta-based Nexidia has developed technology that can phonetically map human speech, and it may ultimately recognize individual voices. So far, Nexidia is selling its system to government intelligence agencies and telephone customer-service centers. Outsourcing companies with call centers can use the software to search for phrases such as "Can you repeat that?" and "I don't understand you," then listen to the entire call to troubleshoot. Much of the company's work is classified, but Nexidia says its Arabic language model is in wide use today in Iraq. Helping compensate for the shortage of Arabic linguists...
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There are now all-Muslim scout packs and troops in at least 22 states, involving more than 2,000 scouts and leaders. They can be found in big cities like Chicago and Atlanta, centers of the Arab-American community such as Dearborn, Mich., and smaller towns like Pottsville, Pa., and Rochester, Minn. Khadija Fuad started a troop last fall at the Islamic School of Louisville, Ky., even though her son Hussein also belongs to what she describes as a "very inclusive" troop at a Baptist church. "I wanted to get more people involved," she says of the new all-Muslim...
AILING. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.; from a heart attack and stroke; in Atlanta. The stroke affected the right side of her body, impairing her speech and requiring physical therapy...
Though both of his parents were graduates of schools in Atlanta, Harper said they felt the city was still too segregated for a black student at the time...