Word: searchingly
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They devised programs that can search through the OED2 and come up with information that would have taken weeks, years or lifetimes to assemble before. Word of this advance in data retrieval has been spreading among computer and dictionary buffs for months. Tompa has letters on his desk asking how many words entered English directly from German and how many references to the Malay language appear in the dictionary. Child's play, apparently. He is more interested in the broader possibilities. "It would be relatively straightforward," he says, "to compile dictionaries for distinct historical periods, to produce something, say, that...
...becoming a ghost town. The population of rural America is being sapped by an epic postwar migration to cities and suburbs, a trend that has accelerated in the past decade. Each year since 1985, more than half a million rural residents have packed up and moved away, usually in search of employment. While self-reliant, spirited towns like Clay Center are putting up a plucky campaign to bring back jobs and citizens, such communities now find they are threatened by conditions, ranging from global competition to deregulation, that are beyond their control. As the small towns shrivel away, so does...
Radcliffe officials offered a new picture of the search for a Radcliffe president this week. Although they admit that Yale Professor of Psychology Judith Rodin removed her name from the list of candidates late in the search process, they now say she was never actually offered the post. Their rationale: Until the Board of Trustees votes to approve an offer, it is not official. Of course, the Board doesn't vote until a candidate has said she will accept the post...
However, what is clear is that police conduct in the incident was deplorable. Whether or not the decision by Cambridge police officers to search the two students was motivated by race, the fact remains that the two students were detained and searched--apparently without any probable cause...
That these two students were merely running down the street does not, in itself, constitute grounds for detention and search by the police. The Cambridge police gave no explanation for their actions at the time, and have yet to do so, and Harvard police present failed to ensure that the students were treated courteously and with respect...