Word: minding
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...Perk up your algorithms. The success of any online retail service depends in part on steering customers to products similar to the ones they've bought - guided browsing, so to speak. How does a company read your mind? Through computer algorithms, which sift through the universe of possibilities to determine that B, C and D would attract the interest of people who bought A. Amazon.com's algorithms result in some astute suggestions; Netflix's suck. If, on the search line, you type in the documentary Joe Louis: For All Time, you'll be directed to the French omnibus film Paris...
...there a duet playing in the back of his mind, I wonder, when Sir Edward Downes, the former conductor of Britain's Royal Opera, held hands with his wife of 54 years and drank the poison with her? Wagner maybe, or Verdi's Aida, one lover condemned to die, the other choosing to follow rather than live half a life, all alone...
...growing developing nations on the western end of the Pacific, that vortex will continue to grow. "It's huge," notes Doug Woodring, an entrepreneur and ocean conservationist in Hong Kong. But "unfortunately the ocean is a big place, and once it's out of sight, it's out of mind." (See TIME's photos: Fragile Planet...
...love story that gets down to the essentials: ecstasy, pain and all the bodily fluids, especially blood. It's liberating to see a film that melds with the obsessions of its characters, that strips the moorings from genre expectations and leaves viewers asking if the film has lost its mind, or if they have. Our advice: when Thirst goes nuts, go with...
HARTFORD, Conn. — Think of an intern in a think tank. He tries to think, but his mind goes blank...