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...teaches the crafting of rigorous hypotheses. This could be a class on evolutionary theory and human nature, psychology, political theory, or even economics. The key requirement should be a focus on rigorous theory about mankind. I tend to think rigor improves with mathematics, but I am perfectly willing to accept that there are verbal substitutes...

Author: By Edward L. Glaeser | Title: Methodology Matters | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...assumptions can be plugged in: competing technologies, changes in government regulations, what rivals may do. The one constant most businesses can count on is churn. "If you know something to be true, it's already history," Williams says. Prediction software, he argues, makes it easier for executives to "accept uncertainty and move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Rapid Response | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...begin to become part of the group,” Bale said. And that inclusion became critical for his development. “Despite the fact that Jim is kind of a foster child of the Chicano culture, he can never be entirely accepted.”Bale also said he spoke with “a variety” of veterans in order to get a feel for his character’s military background. “Some of them let me in on very personal stories,” he says, “which I would...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bale Gets Dirty for His 'Harsh' Role | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...ways to rein in the monkey business. A few years ago, officials in Delhi started rounding up monkeys and caging them in a large, dedicated prison on the outskirts of the city. Authorities would like to send them to forests in neighboring states, but many are refusing to accept the animals. India's Supreme Court stepped in last month, ordering that 300 entrapped monkeys be transferred to a forest in the central state of Madhya Pradesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Way Too Much Monkey Business | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...wish to maintain a moral society, we must in effect drive ourselves extinct to avoid the death of innocent embryos, or we must dismiss the idea that conception is the point at which a life legally begins. One imagines that the second course of action is easier to accept, or at least to pass through Congress...

Author: By Michael Segal | Title: Abortion Under the Microscope | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

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