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...just 24 in that city of 26,000). What's more, when a court order lifted the ban half a year later, the heart-attack rate bounced right back. Dr. Robert Shepard, who wrote the Helena study, offers this explanation: "There is laboratory evidence that secondhand smoke makes platelets stickier, causing clots and sending arteries into spasm--both of which can lead to heart attacks." The chemical reaction and the resulting damage occur quickly...
...Saturday, the ICAC announced it was expanding its investigation to include allegations of share-price rigging at a pair of unidentified listed companies. Canto-pop might promote itself as bubblegum clean, but as the ICAC's ongoing investigation shows, the world behind the music is a whole lot stickier...
...stickier situation, Daniel says, is when the University discovers that an external manager has invested money in questionable businesses—especially when the University learns of the investment after the fact...
...Beijing. As a scientist reads from a Chinese newspaper into a microphone, the words appear magically on a computer screen. But when a friend sings the lyrics of a Chinese pop song, the technology fails miserably. Apparently the slang didn't fit its preprogrammed language bank. It gets even stickier when computers try to talk back to humans. Most speech recognition devices are "idiot savants," says William Weisel, an industry analyst based in southern California. "They can make them very clever on very narrow subjects. It's not artificial intelligence but embedded intelligence." In other words, it will...
...hard part for sticky sites is making money. Ironically, the stickier a site is, the less appealing it is to advertisers. "If a site is sticky, that means people are not clicking on ads," says Classmates CEO Michael Schutzler, a top Net advertiser. What's more, "stickiness is a meaningless measure for sites that sell products," says e-commerce consultant Michael Shostak. "Just because you hang around the store doesn't mean you are going...