Word: processing
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...When Nupedia was created in 2000, the plan was for it to feature expert-written, peer-reviewed content. But it suffered from a major problem: a lack of speed. In its first six months, only two articles made it through the process. To spur better production, Sanger suggested creating a counterpart that anyone could contribute to without editorial review. Wikipedia.com went live on Jan. 15, 2001, and the new model quickly eclipsed its older sibling. By the end of the first year, Wikipedia contained more than 20,000 articles in 18 languages. Since then, the site has grown rapidly, swelling...
...turn down the thermostat would be to spread sulfur particles into the atmosphere, either through artillery or with airplanes, thickening the air enough so that it would bounce some sunlight back. We know that process does reduce global temperatures: when Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991, it threw millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, causing global temperatures over the following months to drop by nearly 1°F. Geoengineering would work much the same way - only it would need to be done continuously, to keep up with the intensifying greenhouse effect...
...different." And so, on a sleepy mid-August Monday, Aug. 17, the court - over a strong dissent - dusted off an antique tool, unused for nearly half a century, to force a new hearing into the slow-rolling fate of a Georgia death-row prisoner named Troy Davis. In the process, the court has opened up new questions about the death penalty: most crucially, how far the courts must go to ensure that an innocent person - as a wide array of politicians, former prosecutors and judges contend Davis is - is not executed...
...Hitoshi Miura, a Tokyo-based political PR strategist, says it might even change after the election. "Sure it's a problem now," he says, "but they will forget about because it's not a serious matter for them after the election." That, not only with regard to the campaign process, is something the electorate might want to bear in mind over the next 12 days...
...have failed in the peace process. It has weakened us.' MAHMOUD ABBAS, President of the Palestinian Authority, opening his Fatah movement's congress--its first in 20 years--by renewing his call for dialogue with rival Hamas...