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...They’ve got them cheap,” he said, referring to the NCRG’s relationship with Harvard. “[Shaffer’s] a scientist, there’s no doubt he’s a scientist, but he’s a scientist that’s being used...
...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's lives." That's hardly child's play...
...original Half-Life borrowed technology from hard-core shoot-'em-ups and used it to spin an absorbing tale about a scientist on the run from scary-gross interdimensional aliens. This had never been done before. Half-Life 2 (PC), which arrives Nov. 16, after six years of work, is one of the most frighteningly atmospheric games I've ever seen. Humanity came out of its interdimensional scrap holding the silver medal, and now we live in an alien-run police state enforced by collaborationist thugs and towering three-legged monstrosities. Long, ringing silences, too bright sunlight and empty streets...
...angry--that gives Sykes' voice its distinct character. In Yeah, I Said It, she writes of the no-win situation faced by less-than-good-looking women: "An ugly woman could cure cancer and there would be jokes on late-night television shows: 'Did you hear about the ugly scientist that cured cancer? Yeah, that's great. You know how she found the cure? Apparently she looked at the cancer and scared it away...
...voices, the insurgents have been able to consolidate power by portraying themselves as defenders of Sunni interests and threatening or killing those viewed as cooperating with the U.S. "For the past year, the only Sunnis who were seen or heard were the resistance," says Wamid Nadhmi, a Sunni political scientist at Baghdad University. "The result was that we--all of us--were labeled, especially by the Americans, as insurgents, kidnappers, beheaders, suicide bombers. The elections will allow us to choose legitimate groups who can stand up and represent the real aspirations of the Sunnis...