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| Rays Tales: Time for Tampa Bay Rays to focus on the AL wild card (St. Petersburg Times) Wild card (wld krd) n 1) Team selected to compete in a tournament or playoff from among those who did not qualify by meeting the regular requirements. dictionary.com us.rd.yahoo.com |
U.S. Census Uses Telenovela to Reach Hispanics A character in a Spanish-language soap opera will work for the Census Bureau in a plot intended to encourage viewers to participate in the 2010 count. nytimes.com |
Grammar Gremlins: How do you say 'Halloween'? (Knoxville News Sentinel) Have you been puzzled in recent years about the pronunciation of "Halloween"? Dictionaries show the preferred pronunciation as "Hal-o-ween," the "Hal-" rhyming with "pal." This used to be the only pronunciation we heard. About 15 years ago, I began to occasionally hear a variation, "Ha-lo-ween" or "Hol-o-ween." Now, we hear one about as often as we hear the other. The oldest dictionary I ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Execs & Accounts: Dictionary.com, VideoEgg, Response Mine (ClickZ) Shravran Goli named president at Dictionary.com; VideoEgg and ComScore team up on data. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Organization of the brain's dictionary (News-Medical-Net) Two hundred years ago, archaeologists used the Rosetta Stone to understand the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Now, a team of Carnegie Mellon University scientists has discovered the beginnings of a neural Rosetta Stone. By combining brain imaging and machine learning techniques, neuroscientists Marcel Just and Vladimir Cherkassky and computer scientists Tom Mitchell and Sandesh Aryal determined ... us.rd.yahoo.com |