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...such as Grigori Perelman’s recent proof of the Poincaré conjecture, which was posted online instead of submitted to a journal, fail to realize that such instances are the exception rather than the rule. True, the traditional peer review process is not perfect. It delays the flow of information, can sometimes be biased, and often unduly prioritizes the work of established, famous scientists over the work of lesser-known researchers. But it is far better than the alternative...
...content of all scanned volumes for keywords, sometimes returning even full passages from the text in question. The intended goal is to eventually make all public-domain works available online alongside excerpts from copyrighted material with the appropriate permissions. The result, no doubt, will be a triumph for information flow that democratizes access to knowledge in an unprecedented...
...company chaotically. We run it at the edge. But the truth is the company is pretty thoroughly planned financially. We have a three-year financial plan that we're submitting to the board. We have data center plans for 2007, 2008 and 2009. We modeled our financials, cash flow. And it's possible for us to predict reasonably accurate cases there. We have a one-year strategic plan, so we have a plan for 2007, about what we want to be next year. What are the markets we want to enter...
...Germany and Turkey. "Secularism," says Purvis, "is no longer taken for granted in either place." Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley studied a reverse migration - not Muslims moving to Europe, but French expatriates settling in Morocco. "The Mediterranean frontier is obviously becoming more porous," he says, "but the nature of the flow differs radically based on the direction in which one travels." We didn't want to limit our sense of new frontiers to high politics and economics, which is why you'll find pieces in this issue on food, art - and the family. Senior editor Catherine Mayer examined...
...colorful protest by the peace activists included a picket line, complete with a call-and-response. Later, protestors smeared themselves with fake blood and lied down on the pavement, slightly impeding the flow of students into the athletic complex...