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WikiSummarizer is a Web-based application specializing in automatic summarization of Wikipedia articles. Automatic summarization is the creation of a shortened version of a text by a computer program. The result is a summary that presents the most important points of the original text. A summary is a shorter version of the original information. It highlights the major points from the much longer article. The purpose is to help the reader to quickly get the essential points in a short period of time.Massive Biometric Project Gives Millions of Indians an ID | Magazine
<img alt="A nationwide biometric project in India." src="/magazine/wp-content/images/19-09/ff_indiaidb_f.jpg" title="A nationwide biometric project in India." width="660" height="454" /> In India, hundreds of millions of impoverished people have no ID—which means no bank account, credit, insurance, or government aid. Photo: Jonathan Torgovnik; Fingerprints: Getty The courtyard , just off a busy street in a Delhi slum called Mongolpuri, is buzzing with people—men in plastic sandals arguing with one another, women in saris holding babies on their hips, skinny young guys chattering on cheap cell phones. New arrivals take up positions at the end of a long queue leading to the gated entry of a low cement building.
7 billion people and you: What's your number?
Sources: All population data are based on estimates by the UN Population Division and all calculations provided by the UN Population Fund . The remaining data are from other sections of the UN, the Global Footprint Network and the International Telecommunications Union .
Persuasive Essay Format
Persuasive Essay Format Intro : *Immediately engage reader ( attention getter )The Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that’s not indexed by the search engines. Most of us think that that search powerhouses like Google and Bing are like the Great Oracle”¦they see everything. Unfortunately, they can’t because they aren’t divine at all; they are just web spiders who index pages by following one hyperlink after the other. But there are some places where a spider cannot enter.
10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web
Artist Ron Miller takes us on a journey to eight of the most breathtaking views that await explorers of our solar system. The scale of these natural wonders dwarfs anything Earth has to offer. What might we see and feel if we could travel to these distant domains? By interpreting data from probes such as NASA's Cassini, which is now exploring the Saturnian system, and MESSENGER, which goes into orbit around Mercury in March 2011, the artist's eye allows us an early visit to these unforgettable locales. Start >
