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...March 2003 attack on the Dewi Madrim in the Strait of Malacca is typical of a rising tide of crime that has turned one of the world's busiest waterways into one of the most dangerous. About 800 km long, the strait is traversed each year by some 50,000 ships carrying one-third of the world's trade and half its crude oil, including 90% of Japan's oil needs. Its narrowest point, near Singapore, is barely 2 km across, making passing ships easy targets. In its latest report released last month, the London-based International Maritime Bureau...
...talk, Levin said Yale has reduced student contributions by about one-third in the past few years, according to the Yale Daily News...
...Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) will submit a report in February with a concrete proposal to aggressively expand engineering research and study at Harvard, building on plans described last year to increase faculty size by one-third and possibly rededicate itself as a “school” of engineering...
...next year, Big Blue aims to roll out a flurry of new Web-scale information-discovery services. While IBM is closemouthed about specifics, the intelligence community is among the hungriest customers of such advanced, large-scale text analytics. The CIA's venture-funding arm, for example, has invested one-third of its $30 million portfolio in data mining and text/visual analytic companies like Inxight. When it comes to tracking terrorist threats, says Jim Thompson, chief scientist for information technologies at the Department of Homeland Security's newly created National Visualization and Analytics Center, high-volume text analytics "has saved people...
...least Rosenbaum took the AP test (actually, he took 16 of them). About one-third of students who proudly list AP courses on their transcripts never take the exams, which are optional. Many top universities, including Harvard and M.I.T., have tightened their terms for granting credit or advanced standing on the basis of AP scores. They recognize that an exam-oriented class taken by 10th- and 11th-graders, no matter how bright and hardworking, is generally not the equivalent of a rigorous college course. "If you're being told that this is a college course, you're being told things...