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...Clinton's work habits are unorthodox, they are also increasingly successful. "He's inventing a new form of chaos theory that works for him," said an Administration veteran. "People are going to have to get used to the fact that this is a different White House. It may look chaotic from the outside. The people who work there may feel it is chaotic. But if it works one more time, they ought to just lock it in and not fool with it. You've got to just hope that it's only going to blow up once in a while...
...decided never to take such a large Coreclass again," said Talusan. "The section becamereally chaotic and overwhelming, so I didn'treally learn...
...were reorganized to serve the period of economic growth (and the uneasy peace) that followed. Under a philosophy outlined by Vannevar Bush, science adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, the huge flow of public dollars allocated to cure diseases and fight the cold war was distributed according to a chaotic system dubbed "scientific pluralism." Basically this meant that the money was funneled through review boards manned by scientists, who gave it to researchers proposing projects considered worthy. The system led to quite a bit of waste and overlap, but it also produced a series of unparalleled triumphs, from conquering polio...
...case for the Chinese model is that while democracy and capitalism may go together, democracy and the conversion of an economy to capitalism do not. Economic reform is chaotic; it makes things worse before they get better; it creates new inequalities that take getting used to. Capitalism, in short, needs an authoritarian government to push it through. Then, when widespread middle-class prosperity is securely established, democracy will naturally follow...
...time Collins graduated from high school, at 16, he was determined to become a chemist. Biology, curiously, did not interest him at all. "Somehow," he muses, "I had the notion that life was chaotic and that whatever principles governed it were unpredictable." This prejudice stayed with him through his undergraduate years at the University of Virginia, where he excelled in the hard sciences and avoided biology as if it were basket weaving. But as a Yale Ph.D. candidate in physical chemistry, he took biochemistry, encountering for the first time DNA and RNA, the molecules that carry the code of life...