Word: informant
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...most of its users, the Internet might seem like an inexplicably haphazard system. But in The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information, Bernardo Huberman, who heads Internet research at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., explains that the Net actually follows predictable rules that can inform business decisions. Like the sports and entertainment worlds, the Internet is a winner-take-all marketplace where relatively few companies reap huge profits. There is a very low probability that a new site will attract significant traffic. And congestion, or "storms" that slow access to pages, can be predicted...
...Hill Unit at the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, moderated the event. He emphasized that role of the media is crucial in addressing the role of women. Senior Producer of ABC News 20/20, Roberta Baskin agreed, adding that people should “take [their] voice seriously” and inform the media to address such issues...
...order to create a “community of support.” CASV’s highest priority is to establish a trained “impartial advocate” as a centralized name to call directly after an incident of sexual violence. This impartial advocate would inform the victim of her options, explain the Ad Board procedure, suggest other campus resources and provide counseling. Currently, CASV argues, Harvard provides several resources for students looking for guidance on issues of sexual violence, but the system can be unpredictable, because not all of the “first contacts?...
Truszkowska feels that more steps should be taken to inform students, especially freshmen, of the vast possibility for sexual violence at final clubs. “The issue of final clubs and sexual safety is inextricable. When I was a freshman, I didn’t understand that final clubs are not under University protection, and this gives them a lot of leeway. It creates a very dangerous position for women, especially freshmen, who don’t understand exactly what they are,” she says...
...never an issue for Scott, a self-proclaimed player who graduated with the class of 2001. In an FM article titled “How to be a player,” Scott told the tale of his bank-teller friend who frequently called his cell phone to inform him how she “couldn’t stop thinking about him going down on her.” However, getting to this scenario was no easy task, he says. He noticed her one month in the dead of winter, her pixie blonde hair bent over the bank?...