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...last year or two, the town roads department has been experimenting with compounds, a gravel-and-clay surface, easier than dirt to plow and maintain - but not yet asphalt. That seemed a good compromise; the baby powder still fills...
...before the winner was announced, CNN interviewed Clay Fondren, a private investigator who determined that the winner was Rudy, using "protonesis," which he described as "a proprietary speech-analysis process." Fondren further explained, "We were able to break down linguistics to the sublayer level, and we gain extra content from that." CNN, however, failed to gain any extra content whatsoever...
...reason may be genuine environmental concern. Ford's new chairman, William Clay Ford Jr., an avid fly fisherman and vegetarian, has vowed to make the company a better corporate citizen. Stung by attacks on his new Excursion--a 12.5-m.p.g. guzzler dubbed "Ford Valdez" by critics--he has expressed fears that auto companies could be scorned like tobacco companies if they don't clean up their act. Similarly, GM has sought to position itself as the greenest car company, beginning in 1996 when it launched the nation's first modern, mass-produced electric car, the EV-1. But both companies...
...five weeks across the board, dedicating the bonus hours to intensive reading instruction. The shift paid off at test time. The four schools on the new calendar raised their scores, and one landed among the state's best performers. The longer year is so popular, reports principal JoAnn Bester Clay, that some parents and children want to abolish summer break. "I don't have a real vacation, since all I do is sit home," says sixth-grader La'Chet Henderson. "This gives me something...
...From Clay Fondren at a company called Protonesis...