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...pathetic" at understanding natural language. AQA has a team of 50 researchers (which Myers hopes to enlarge to 200 by the end of the year) who scurry for facts. An AQA computer hangs onto the answers, so that when questions repeat, the computer replies. Computers also fetch the most straightforward answers, such as stock prices...
...pathetic" at understanding natural language. AQA has a team of 50 researchers (which Myers hopes to enlarge to 200 by the end of the year) who scurry for facts. An AQA computer hangs onto the answers, so that when questions repeat, the computer replies. Computers also fetch the most straightforward answers, such as stock prices. Caveat emptor: the answers are not always timely. It recently took AQA three days to answer a question about the average first-day price rise of new issues on the London Stock Exchange. But Myers says AQA answers 80% of all questions in less than...
...impalas, kudu, warthogs, springbok, giraffes, hippos, zebras and waterbuck are sold, the auction has raised $1.5 million, well down on last year's $3.3 million, but a sign that conservation efforts are working. Says Gaisford: "As people stock their farms, demand is bound to go down." I decide a straightforward approach to buyers is safest. Rob Le Sueur, owner of Nambiti Game Conservancy, four hours' drive west, is with his manager Mark Hamsmeyer, checking out two white rhino. They are looking for rhino and hippos to stock their new park. "What do you look for in a hippo...
...Although the virus that causes polio is highly contagious, bringing it under control is relatively straightforward because a cheap vaccine has long been available. "There is no magic to this," says Dr. Tumseh Salah, who is managing the Swat Valley vaccination program. "You immunize enough kids, and you can stop the virus." Indeed, the eradication program has been a spectacular success. In its 16 years of operation, the number of countries where polio remains a chronic problem has fallen from 125 to just six: Egypt, Niger, Nigeria, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. (In all of Asia, just 34 cases were reported...
...wasn’t very open about a lot of things,” she said. “He would selectively have short responses to certain types of questions, he was sort of evasive about certain questions. He would joke things off rather than giving you a straightforward answer...