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...begun to feel that way, as everyone from the White House to the city council in Peoria has looked into racial profiling. "There's a tiny number of police officers who may be stopping people because of race, but for many of us these days, it's guilt by uniform," says James Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police (F.O.P.), the largest police union in the U.S. "It's wrong to characterize a person because of the color of their uniform...
...morning of the attack, we were divided into two groups. I was in the second group. I put on my best uniform, my flying uniform, the khaki-colored one. I prayed at a wooden replica of a Shinto shrine. I bowed once. I didn't ask for much. I said simply: "I am going...
...rehearsal." Thank heaven for writers. "If you think of the innumerable regional accents of English-speaking Yanks, Anglos, Aussies and Asians, including the phonetically unimpressive Mr. Mahathir," comments TIME critic Robert Hughes, author of The Fatal Shore, a history of Australia, "you realize that the days of uniform English pronunciation are long gone." And Dr. Mahathir, for all his linguistic prowess, still seems to struggle with a few simple words?like discretion and humility...
...search engines are bad - in fact they're better than ever and improving constantly - but the technology they employ is no match for the sheer speed and diversity of Web growth. Search engines rely mostly on crawlers, software robots that hop from site to site and from one URL (uniform resource locator, or Web address) to another, indexing the contents of pages as they go. For most pages, crawlers do a fine, if slow, job. But when they bump into sites where information is held inside a database, they grind to a halt...
...similar techniques to make the measurements. They looked for a kind of explosion called a Type Ia supernova, occurring when an aging star destroys itself in a gigantic thermonuclear blast. Type Ia's are so bright that they can be seen all the way across the universe and are uniform enough to have their distance from Earth accurately calculated...