Word: modeling
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...both candidates are clapping, if sometimes with one hand. Obama and his aides have said Hill's efforts in North Korea offer a model for dealing with other rogue regimes, and on his way back from Europe, Obama backed the Bush overture to Tehran, telling Reuters "the Iranians should take that gesture seriously." When he visited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on July 23, Obama even endorsed Bush and Rice's three-track approach for an accelerated Arab-Israeli peace process and pledged to continue it if elected. McCain has also endorsed the Bush diplomatic moves, while stressing that...
...Features in the current issue include interviews with director Spike Lee and Edmonde Charles-Roux, the editor of Vogue Paris who quit in 1966 when the publisher wouldn't use a cover of black model. (Sozzani, by contrast, says she had the full support of her superiors.) There is also a profile of Michelle Obama. Sozzani is impressed with both the aspiring President and his spouse. "Neither one of them follow the trends, but they each have their own style," she says...
Director of Life Sciences Education Robert A. Lue—who directs the portal’s programs—said he hopes the portal will serve as a first step towards establishing a new model for how a large university can contribute to its neighboring communities...
...models show that green can be given a devastatingly cool makeover. Britain's Lightning GT and the U.S.-built Tesla Roadster both reach 60 m.p.h. in 4 seconds or less, their makers claim, with top speeds approaching 130 m.p.h. The Lightning GT - unveiled at London's International Motor Show last week and set to be available from the end of 2009 - sports an impressive, sleek and sexy design, drawing on Aston Martin's classic British look. Tesla, which launched its hot, little open-top two-seater a couple of years ago, has already sold out of the 2008 model...
...fashioned, approach to indexing websites. Instead of ranking them based on popularity, as Google does, it focuses on the content of each page. That may make sense in theory - after all, the most popular restaurants, for example, rarely serve the best food - but it is precisely the model that Google broke away from in order to give users more relevant results. That could explain why a Cuil search on "insomnia" directs the user to the American Insomnia Association rather than to the Wikipedia entry on the subject pulled up first by most other search engines...