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...should have known that Google would get it right. The company is among the few shining stars in an industry littered with flameouts. Before Google came along in 1998 with its breakthrough search engine, trying to search for stuff on the Web was an exercise in information overload. Google's innovation was an algorithm (afancy comp-sci term for a set of rules) that matched search terms with the most relevant sites that get most links from the highest quality Web pages. Think of it as searching by dint of popular demand...
...Omar's disappointment, however, was probably the best news out of the embattled region in ages?and a possible breakthrough in the Kashmir Gordian knot. Kashmiris embraced the democratic process as a means of somehow going forward: turnout was 44%, compared to the pointedly apathetic participation in 1996 elections. They trusted India's vow that the polls wouldn't be rigged (as they have been in the past) and India came through. That's an amazing show of mutual good faith following 13 years of anti-Indian militancy and more than 36,000 lives lost. Militant groups attacked polling stations...
...decade study of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans led to the discovery of four proteins governing cell lineage, cell signaling and cell death—breakthrough findings that could have broad implications for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer?...
...painted surfaces - and beyond them into unreadable depths. The only features are the verticals that became his theme. In The Word I (1946), brown paint is scraped over pale blue, segmented by a vertical ray. Onement III (1949) is a version of the painting he saw as a personal breakthrough. About the height of a man, the canvas has one scarlet stripe on an opaque burgundy background. The surface is hardly modulated, so that details such as the rough canvas grain and the stripe's distressed paint become the story. The exhibition recreates Newman's first solo show...
This important breakthrough, though easy to mock, is actually a quite serious endeavor...