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...foreign investment and for a clean, effective system of public administration?not always qualities found in abundance in the region. But as Asia's cities modernize and its economies open up, Singapore?which has a population of just 4.4 million?must remain competitive. That may mean that the famously neat and manicured island will have to provide the sense of messy excitement that makes the world's great cities places where lively minds want to live...
...flashed a year ago at Lord's cricket ground in London. While England was playing South Africa, Myers was struggling with a crossword puzzle that wanted four letters for a herring. "I sent a text to someone and got my answer [shad]," he says. "I thought, This is neat-let's press...
...flashed a year ago at Lord's cricket ground in London. While England was playing South Africa, Myers was struggling with a crossword puzzle that wanted four letters for a herring. "I sent a text to someone and got my answer [shad]," he says. "I thought, This is neat - let's press on.'" How does it work? Most of the questions are answered by humans rather than by computers, which Myers describes as "notoriously pathetic" at understanding natural language. AQA has a team of 50 researchers (which Myers hopes to enlarge to 200 by the end of the year...
...Squad Actor Tony Randall, who died last month [MILESTONES, May 31], had a long stage and film career, but his defining role, as we noted, was portraying the fastidiously neat Felix Unger in the 1970s TV sitcom The Odd Couple. Shortly after the show made its debut, TIME gave it an enthusiastic review...
...proceedings spinning out of control. Before his court appearance, Lukovic's attorney had promised his client would provide "irrefutable evidence" proving who was behind the killing. Instead, Lukovic, known to his friends as "Legija" for his time in the French Foreign Legion, merely protested his innocence. Dressed in a neat gray suit that concealed his garish, arm-length tattoos, he said that when he heard he was accused of the crime, "I told myself, Milorad, this must be some mistake. Sleep on it. Something has to be cleared up." He went into hiding that night, but turned himself...