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...curatorship is a new post endowed by a gift from Alan J. Dworsky, who received his MBA from Harvard in 1966 and has been involved in Harvard's Art Museums for a number of years...
...with a larger brain and body than its predecessor, H. habilis, "it was probably changing its range and its living habitat almost immediately," says Swisher. H. erectus also developed a more carnivorous appetite and probably moved to follow game. "As soon as they lost this dependency on vegetation," says Alan Walker, a Pennsylvania State University paleoanthropologist, "they changed their lifestyle. Then they...
...equity risk premium has declined. Let's define this, by the way. Equity risk premium is the extra return that investors demand because they think stocks are riskier than the benchmark [30-year Treasury] bond. O.K., it has declined roughly from 7% to 3%. [A decline drives up prices.] Alan Greenspan says, "The question is, Is this decline temporary or is it permanent?" We offer a third alternative we think is a reasonable alternative, which is, Will it continue [to decline] to what we believe to be its reasonable resting place, which is around zero? If stocks and bonds...
...TURING TESTERS Computer engineers will continue to measure their efforts to mimic human intelligence, as British mathematician Alan Turing suggested 50 years ago, by asking you whether you're talking to a person or a machine. By the time you can't tell the difference, these human simulators will be used as unflappable customer service reps as well as Internet attaches who can summarize your e-mails and even write back: "Hi, Mom, sorry I missed your call...
Some heavy hitters - some surprising, some not - are lining up behind Bill Clinton's precious China trade bill. On Wednesday George W. Bush went to Boeing and stood with the White House on the bill, declaring "our greatest export is freedom." And Alan Greenspan pitched in with economic arguments on Thursday. But after the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee both tipped overwhelmingly in favor of granting China permanent status as a normal trading partner, TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan says it's hard-core liberal Democrat Charles Rangel who may deserve much of the credit...