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...limited-edition version of this box (just 20,000 copies) is tricked out with a Man in Black lithograph and a coffee-table book heavy enough to knock out anyone who asks if it's all really worth $329.98. There's also a considerably cheaper model with just the music, nearly 50 years of Cash divided thematically into four discs. The real find is the Family and Friends disc, which has a selection of Cash's work with the Carter Family plus a spectacularly weird duet with Bob Dylan (Girl from the North Country) and a previously unreleased...
...embrace of state pre-eminence over federal authority meant he was sometimes hard to locate on the conservative-liberal spectrum. As political scientists Jeffrey Segal of Stony Brook University in New York and Harold Spaeth of Michigan State demonstrate in their book The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model, Rehnquist supported states' economic regulations 89% of the time when the regulations were pro-business and 88% of the time when they were anti-business. "No other Justice comes close to this sort of across-the-board deference" to the states, Segal said in an e-mail. "Most justices are ideological...
...search techniques is tagging, a grassroots phenomenon whereby users label websites with descriptive tags, building a network of knowledge dubbed folksonomy--a taxonomy of knowledge organized by ordinary folk. Yahoo! was quick to spot this trend, and in March bought Flickr, a photo website organized with a communal tagging model. Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo!'s technology director, says the company wants to apply search across all its user-created content. The tagline? "Better search through people...
...service centers. Outsourcing companies with call centers can use the software to search for phrases such as "Can you repeat that?" and "I don't understand you," then listen to the entire call to troubleshoot. Much of the company's work is classified, but Nexidia says its Arabic language model is in wide use today in Iraq. Helping compensate for the shortage of Arabic linguists in the U.S. intelligence community, Nexidia's technology can "listen" to audio and alert linguists to phrases that are of concern...
...team of federal and state hydrologists and geologists completes a large study of groundwater flow through the targeted region. By itself, collecting better data will not resolve the current conflict, but it's a start. The more scientists learn about Nevada's aquifer system, the more accurately they can model potential effects, and the more confidence the public in that state and elsewhere will have in the decisions the government agencies make. "When the water is gone, the future is gone," observes rancher Dean Baker. That's true not only for ranching families in Snake Valley but for families...