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...time,” said moderator Jacqueline Bhabha, the director of the University’s Committee on Human Rights Studies. Malcorra called for a reevaluation of the current U.N. intervention model because of new challenges. “More and more so, the U.N. has become a target in itself,” she said. Harland and Gaouette presented mixed viewpoints on the efficacy of the international organization, especially the Security Council. “Clarity is not the greatest of its virtues,” Harland said. Gaouette, meanwhile, reflected on his own experience with...
...Trillion-Dollar Question Michael Grunwald wrote in "How to Spend a Trillion Dollars" [Jan. 26] that if the government gives money away to stimulate the economy, it should target "people who can't afford to save it ... that's why Obama is pushing a permanent $500-per-person credit on payroll taxes for every worker making less than $200,000 a year." Was that sarcasm? Frank Humphreys, DUBLIN...
...Auto-Tune--but it's not the way Hildebrand meant it to be used. The program's retune speed, which adjusts the singer's voice, can be set from zero to 400. "If you set it to 10, that means that the output pitch will get halfway to the target pitch in 10 milliseconds," says Hildebrand. "But if you let that parameter go to zero, it finds the nearest note and changes the output pitch instantaneously"--eliminating the natural transition between notes and making the singer sound jumpy and automated. "I never figured anyone in their right mind would want...
...prevailing theory about internet display advertising and e-commerce is that they would replace TV, newspapers, and magazines as the most efficient way to reach consumers. Online advertising could target people based on their interests and habits. The number of hours people spend on the internet compared to time spent doing things like watching TV has gone up every year for almost a decade...
...donation will provide support for her efforts to identify new classes of immunogens, signals that allow the immune system to recognize foreign matter in the body, Wu said. More immunogens could allow scientists to more specifically target leukemia...