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...with the number of votes. Memeorandum, which currently focuses on politics and tech, combines traditional news and blogs to help track and understand the web conversation about current top news.As intriguing as these experiments are, they only hint at what’s coming to help manage the news torrent. We will need tools that combine machine and human intelligence, reputation, and popularity.Readers and viewers will also need to bring a more sophisticated approach to interpreting media reports and news sources. When any website can be made to look as slick as any other, and rumors race around...
...done? The White House for its part says that it was "well aware" of the flooding and were focused on saving lives, says Deputy Press Secretary Trent Duffy. "We got helicopters up in the air and into search and rescue," Duffy told TIME, adding that there was a torrent of information coming in and the White House was responding appropriately...
...extreme sports on offer. Adrenaline junkies launch themselves 26 km down the Zambezi, through the winding basalt canyons of the Batoka Gorge, with no more than a wetsuit, helmet, lifejacket, fins and a body board with wrist leash. It's an irresistible challenge for river-boarding fanatics: a torrent of such force that it generates enough hydroelectricity to power both Zimbabwe and neighboring Zambia. Expert guides lead river boarders into violent Class IV and V rapids with dangerous drops and irregular currents and names like Stairway to Heaven and Oblivion; these waters are known to have flipped more inflatable rafts...
...extreme sports on offer. Adrenaline junkies launch themselves 26 km down the Zambezi, through the winding basalt canyons of the Batoka Gorge, with no more than a wetsuit, helmet, lifejacket, fins and a body board with wrist leash. It's an irresistible challenge for river-boarding fanatics: a torrent of such force that it generates enough hydroelectricity to power both Zimbabwe and neighboring Zambia. Expert guides lead river boarders into violent Class IV and V rapids with dangerous drops and irregular currents and names like Stairway to Heaven and Oblivion; these waters are known to have flipped more inflatable rafts...
...After Summers received a torrent of disapproval at three Faculty meetings in February and March, criticism of the president’s leadership style largely disappeared from public view. But the minutes indicate that those concerns remain among many chairs...