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...born.”Launched in April 2007, INeedAPencil.com offers SAT prep for free. It provides lessons and practice test questions, and users are able to customize their sessions to fit a certain time frame. But INeedAPencil.com also adds special features to the typical program. These include a visual progress chart that keeps track of completed lessons, a score projector that calculates the actual expected test score based on aggregate performance, and even a “confidence calibrator” that allows users to indicate the level of confidence in their answers. “It hones your ability...
...Authority. Even that, however, is of secondary importance for the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu sees the overwhelming priority of both Israel and the U.S. as Iran, and he has made stopping Tehran's nuclear program his overarching priority. Defanging Iran, his aides argue, is also the key to any progress with the Palestinians, because the Israelis claim that Hamas is nothing more than an Iranian proxy. And while the Obama Administration has begun unfurling a strategy of engagement aimed at addressing the nuclear question and other points of tension with Iran, Netanyahu has warned that time is short and that...
Veratect's tracking method includes analyzing Internet data (blogs and other sources), maintaining on-the-ground contact with health officials, text-mining news reports and government resources for keywords related to infectious-disease outbreaks and using satellite images of weather patterns to detect and predict the progress of global events like disease and civil unrest. Veratect sources first picked up reports of human respiratory disease at a pig farm in Mexico on April 6; additional reports of a similar illness surfaced on April 16, which is when the company got concerned enough to e-mail officials...
...federal technology transformation remains very much a work in progress, with several agencies just beginning to grapple with allowing employees to even access social-networking sites. The White House communications team, for instance, is not able to access the government's Facebook postings and Twitter feeds, let alone those of reporters from the press corps, because of filters installed at the White House. (The White House New Media team, which posts on the networks from four old speech-writing rooms in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, has been able to win an exemption from this policy...
...government. But lawmakers seemed unimpressed by Holbrooke's appeals. Committee chairman Democrat Howard Berman of California said the House is "simply asking the Pakistanis to keep the commitments they have already made to fight the terrorists who threaten our national security and theirs, and that they make some progress doing so, with progress defined very broadly." If that is unreasonable, Berman asked, "then what does that tell us about our relationship with Pakistan...