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...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...
...conversation with Hoefler and Frere-Jones is an instant education, not only in letter design but also in history, fine art, literature and music," says Michael Bierut, a partner at the global design agency Pentagram and a frequent client. Such context is important. Whether it is Sumerian hieroglyphs on clay tablets or cybertext on the Internet, the written word is made up of assembled shapes, and the tiniest details--the contour of a serif, the slope of a curve--can evoke mood and emotion as concisely as the message itself does. Thus each of Hoefler and Frere-Jones' creations...