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...train and communicate with non-English-speaking U.S. employees. Translation and localization remain a creative endeavor, one that is hard to accomplish entirely with computers, which would seemingly save money at the risk of quality. There is still no easily accessible computer software that can think and construct a sentence like a human being. --Steven P. Iverson, President Iverson Language Associates Milwaukee...
...places at different speeds. Although non-Muslims often view Islam as a monolithic bloc, the religion is characterized by its diversity. With over a billion believers scattered across every continent, as well as separate Shi'ite and Sunni traditions, the Muslim community (or ummah) has long been a philosophical construct rather than a demographic reality. That's true in Europe, where Muslims are divided by country of residence as much as by country of origin. "The problems Muslims are facing here are deeply influenced by the institutions of the countries where they live," says Farhad Khosrokhavar, a professor at Paris...
...eventually, plugging holes in the dike comes to seem more trouble than it's worth. So now I'm out. The next phase will be interesting as well. Call it part two in a controlled experiment testing those fancy French theories about disease as a social construct. I was officially, publicly healthy. Now, with almost no objective medical change, I am officially, publicly sick. How will that change the actual effect of the disease? Without, I hope, distorting the experiment, I predict that this notion of disease as a function of attitudes about disease will turn out to be more...
However the department chairs contacted yesterday already agreed that an attempt to construct a Faculty-wide or even department-wide grading policy would be a mistake...
...country's small arsenal of atom bombs. According to a lot of people, he also may be a little flaky. The fact that since 1998, so loose a nuclear cannon has been traveling in and out of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, where he has helped the Afghans construct a complex of buildings he describes as flour mills, has a lot of people worried...