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AUSTIN, Texas, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- As recently reported by Us Magazine and others, Jennifer Love Hewitt, star of TV's Ghost Whisperer, is enjoying her new trim figure. "I just got this machine called the Ab Circle Pro -- I ordered it off TV, and I love it!" the 31-year-old star says about the fitness machine that helped her get her flat belly and maintain her weight loss. She adds: "It's amazing. It's probably my best secret!" (Photo:...

Computer scientist Fabrice Bellard said he has computed the mathematical constant pi to nearly 2.7 trillion digits, some 123 billion more than the previous record, BBC News reported.Bellard used a desktop computer to perform the calculation, taking a total of 131 days to complete and check the result. He said his version of pi takes over a terabyte of hard disk space to store.Bellard also claims his method is 20 times more efficient than previous records established using...

WELLESLEY, Mass., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- PI Worldwide®, the premier global consulting company specializing in leadership and sales development, has been recognized as a leading solution provider for best in class performance in a new report from Aberdeen Group, the leading provider of fact-based research focused on the global technology-driven value chain. According to Aberdeen's research, best in class organizations select and deploy instructor-led training to create more meaningful...

Letter writers of yore had same correspondence patterns as e-mail users todayYou're not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence.A new Northwestern University study of human behavior has determined that those who wrote letters using pen and paper -- long before electronic mail existed -- did so in a pattern similar to the way people use e-mail today.The study, published Sept. 25 by the journal Science, demonstrates...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center (PI) is very excited to announce the receipt of a $3 million challenge grant from the Brin Foundation as the lead gift in the PI's $15 million Capital Campaign - "A Campaign to Conquer Parkinson's Disease." The "Challenge" feature of the grant invites individuals, foundations and corporations to partner with the Brin Foundation in support of Parkinson's research. "This capital campaign will...

A Swedish doctoral student has tracked changes in English language usage, examining the world million and how its usage has morphed. Donald MacQueen of Uppsala University said he used historical collections that include everything ever written in a dozen U.S. and British newspapers, including news, features, editorials and classified advertisements. In his English linguistics dissertation, MacQueen examined the word million, especially how language usage shifted from the previously nearly...

A New Jersey professor, using a mathematical formula to foretell the outcome of games, predicts a three-way tie in the National League East this season. Professor Bruce Bukiet, of the mathematical sciences department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, developed a formula in 2000 to predict game results. As the season gets under way Sunday, his formula sees the defending World Champion Philadelphia Phillies, the New York Mets (which Bukiet admits is his favorite team) and the Atlanta...

NEW YORK, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- April 1, 2009 Dividend Reinvested Index 3 S&P US Indices Values 31-Mar-09 Months YTD S&P 500 (1) 2797.628 8.760 -11.012 -11.012 S&P MidCap 400 (2) 952.096 9.048 -8.655 -8.655 S&P SmallCap 600 (3)...

Winning Coach Uses Data-Driven Assessment to Beat the Competition WELLESLEY, Mass., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- When March Madness comes around, every fan wants to know: What makes a winning team? In today's competitive economic environment, managers at companies large and small are asking the same question. They face the same challenges as coaches competing on the courts -- how to build, motivate and maximize the talent of their people to build winning teams. Wellesley-based PI Worldwide, a...

A pair of New York state high school teachers said they held their math-infused wedding on the day set aside to commemorate irrational decimal pi. Audra Smith, 25, and Joseph Ahl, 24, math teachers at Fairport High School, said they held their wedding on March 14 -- also known as 3.14, or Pi Day -- because, as their wedding invitations said: Love is like Pi, natural, irrational and very important, the Rochester (N.Y.) News and Democrat reported Tuesday. Smith said holding the wedding on Pi...