At Yorkshire Pudding, Hill says that his staff asks diners whether they would like to share their meals.

But the most cutting-edge tool under development is the "teachable agent" —a computerized character who learns, tries, makes mistakes and asks questions just like a real-world pupil.

From now on, when someone asks you how your life is, try responding with words like "exciting" and "fun", instead of the culture norm that says "busy".

The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.

Although the programme asks the members only to drive students to and from their classes, Wilson often goes beyond to ensure the welfare and safety of the students.

She asks me how I'm doing.

Tom is so independent that he never asks his parents' opinion unless he wants their support.

Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be.

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

The survey they asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to workless than full time or because they had no choice.

The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.