Word: contently
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That's an extreme but not isolated case. Those boys probably wouldn't have paid much attention even if the drinks' labels did include caffeine content, but the rest of us should be able to calibrate our addictions with more information...
...Harvard Law School student who helped code the algorithm. After adopting the algorithm to analyze text on political blogs, Knowles wrote, the team realized the software could have broader appeal for the general public. “I knew that other people could use our software for content analysis on the Internet,” he wrote. Several companies have already been using the technology to analyze customer reaction to their products and marketing tactics, King added. In the short term, King said, he believes companies will continue to use “readme” technology through Crimson Hexagon...
...probably would not have guessed that from Time Magazine’s loaded title (“Was Milan Kundera a Communist Snitch?”), which overshadows the reasonably balanced content of its article. A top Italian newspaper ran a headline that read, “Kundera helped the Czech secret police,” while the German paper Die Welt likened Kundera to Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize-winning author who hid his military service for the Nazis during most of his life. Several Czech journalists and intellectuals stated they are not surprised that Kundera...
...said, smiling. “The way we know you get it—if your eyes are shining at the end.”In a style reminiscent of the music lectures given by Leonard Bernstein ’39, Zander explained the background and content of the first piece on the program, Béla Bartók’s little known “Dance Suite.” Mentioning that Bartók collected Hungarian folk songs and wrote compositions that reflected these tunes with “fantastic sophistication,” he pointed...
...make foolhardy decisions despite his good intentions. Traub questions the theory that economic stability and prosperity are necessary for a successful democratic system. He discusses democracy in economically weak Mali at length. Although it has few valuable resources and a subsistence-farm-based economy, the people are genuinely content with the political situation. Drawing on the time he has spent there, Traub convincingly conveys the situation in Mali from a variety of perspectives, allowing the reader to see the social desires that democracy fulfills there. As one Mali citizen declares, “Now you can go and speak...