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...service can do is highlight passages for a potential match. Then it is up to a skilled editor to look at that information and ask, ‘What does this mean?’” Povejsil says CrossCheck will offer the most thorough search tool for publishing companies, but the software is not the first of its type. iThenticate, another iParadigms program that served as the basis for CrossCheck, facilitates article authentication by comparing new documents against a database of published articles and providing small excerpts from any documents with matching text. Despite the popularity of anti...
Imprecise measurement has long crippled efforts to find Earth-like planets that may represent scientists’ best hope at finding extraterrestrial life, but Harvard scientists say a new laser-based measuring tool could bring the universe into sharper focus. The astro-comb allows astronomers to discover Earth-size planets, which are most likely to support extraterrestrial life because larger planets tend to be entirely gaseous and inhospitable to organisms like those on Earth. The laser provides a way to measure the near-imperceptible changes in a star’s light that are induced by orbiting planets. Planet gravity...
...roughly 9 million compatriots who live in Xinjiang. Kadeer was once a rich businesswoman in Xinjiang but fell afoul of the authorities and served a six-year jail sentence for revealing state secrets to foreigners. Two of her sons are still in prison in China. "It's a Chinese tool to have the Han feel a sense of animosity toward Uighurs," Kadeer says. "Look at it now! They have extracted all the natural resources and the oil. We're left in the darkness...
...nominate Barack Obama. His challenge to mankind is the tool for a great America--a great message that calls for all to rise and move forward with one another. America is in dying need of a change. I am confident Obama is fit for the challenge...
...newborn shoots. She inhaled quickly and deeply as she noticed a gardener sleeping beneath a distant tree.“Perhaps I shall kill him as well,” she thought, “if I am not too tired out after disemboweling Frederick with a gardening tool.”Her hand unlocked the door; her slippered foot made the step of no return. Her eyes saw the array of sharp tools laid upon the shelf as though in wait for her. Her hand moved again through the dusty gloom, selected a pitchfork, clutched it to her breast...