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...Madonna so the cars could be seen at hip places and parties around town. "We leverage the untapped power of word of mouth," says Matthew Stradiotto, cofounder of Matchstick, a Toronto firm that specializes in product seeding. Before a product launch, Matchstick hands out samples to key "influencers," a method credited with contributing to the success of sneaker launches by the likes of Adidas and Reebok...
...district is making some progress in closing the gap. One effective method: home visits, which foster a relationship between teachers and parents and encourage working together to meet a child's needs. Suggested by a parent in 1998, the program helped boost reading scores in the district's elementary schools 36% and math scores 73% (reading and math scores are still only at the 46th and 59th national percentile, respectively...
Because of his deafness, Kanevsky says, "I considered speech more mathematically and tried to find mathematical patterns rather than acoustic ones." One of his first breakthroughs was to teach computers a new way of picking out individual words in a stream of sound. Kanevsky's mathematical method made it possible for people to talk to ordinary computers without pausing...after...each...word. Derivatives of this algorithm, first published in 1991, are used in many of today's voice-recognition products...
...near Princeton University. The sleuthing is controversial among some veteran investigators, who fear that by displaying only Hatfill's picture to locals, rather than a photo lineup of several people, the officials were biasing witnesses, says a source with knowledge of the anthrax case. The concern is that this method could lead to false sightings, or if charges are filed, witness testimony could be thrown out. Nevertheless, investigators are hopeful that the discovery of the "hot box," as the mailbox is called, represents a significant break in the case. The box was one of hundreds that fed into a postal...
...district is making some progress in closing the gap. One effective method: home visits, which foster a relationship between teachers and parents and encourage working together to meet a child's needs. Suggested by a parent in 1998, the program helped boost reading scores in the district's elementary schools 36% and math scores 73% (reading and math scores are still only at the 46th and 59th national percentile, respectively...