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...larger-than-life Chancellor, tapped her as Minister for Women and Youth for his Cabinet in 1991. She established herself as both ambitious and willing to learn, outmaneuvering a succession of male colleagues to take the party leadership in 2000. "She's criticized for being timid," says political scientist Gerd Langguth, her biographer, "but she's a political panther...
...ANSWERS Search engines are good at matching words across websites but have struggled with nuance to answer questions in everyday language. Google today can answer basic factual queries. The next step is semantic search--looking for meaning, not just matching key words. Oren Etzioni, a University of Washington computer scientist, uses language-analysis programs to power KnowItAll, which scans documents for facts--Oswald killed J.F.K., for example. So far, KnowItAll has extracted 900 million facts--enabling it to answer questions. Nosa Omoigui, 33, a former Microsoft researcher, founded Bellevue-based Nervana, which analyzes language by linking word patterns contextually...
...debate suggests parity. But in the free marketplace of ideas, you have to take on all comers--the good, the bad and the ugly. If you cannot believe that the truth will win out in a fair competition for support by regular, well-educated folk, then you are no scientist...
...appreciate columnist Charles Krauthammer's clear and unequivocal statement on the dangers of the creationist intrusion into science instruction [Aug. 8]. I am a behavioral scientist and university professor, and I have always been dismayed that behavioral-science departments do not include major sections on the power of religious thought and belief. But the theory of "intelligent design" [which claims there is a supernatural influence in the origin of life, as opposed to Darwinian evolution] is neither good science nor good religion. How can well-meaning people genuinely think that our culture will advance by turning our backs on rational...
...elected, Merkel will be able to form a coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats (fdp). Instead, they might be forced to form a coalition with the spd, which many analysts fear could stall economic reforms. "Her campaign now has serious problems," says Jürgen Falter, political scientist at the University of Mainz. Merkel has tripped several times out of the starting gate. She floated the idea of raising the country's 16% value-added tax to help pay for social security benefits; voters hate the idea of paying higher taxes. An attempt to smarten up her image - party...