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...most famous understatements in the history of science: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." They faced the question of byline: Watson and Crick, or Crick and Watson? They flipped a coin...
Over my dead bonds. Call me old fashioned, but after four years of hypergrowth, the likelihood that the S&P can keep up that performance becomes less, not more. You flip a coin four times, and it comes up heads; you cannot conclude that the next flip will yield a head. And even if a fifth head is coming, it doesn't mean there is no risk of a tail--or a tailspin--eventually. I'd be more comfortable if we got to a 10,000 Dow over a longer period of time, during which earnings could catch...
...additional thirty seconds of sudden death, in which a coin-toss winner gets to choose to be on top or bottom, Kurtz was able to escape Urbinelli...
...Mill Valley, Calif., in a one-bedroom apartment above a coin-operated laundry, Andre Mehr, a white 17-year-old with a crew cut, and Emiliano Obiedo, a ponytailed 16-year-old who is half white and half Hispanic, are huddled over a PC. A beat spirals up. Obiedo offers some advice, and Mehr clatters away at the keyboard. They are making music. Once they settle on a beat, Obiedo will take a diskette bearing a rhythm track home and lay down some rhymes. Soon they hope to have enough for a CD. Boasts Obiedo: "I'm going to change...
...improve upon the hermeneutics of chalktalk pundits and initiate pro football in a richer obscurantism. The thoughtful spectator will see the players as nodes through which institutionalized power relations are transmitted. From the flip of the coin, the stark binary "Either/Or" ("heads" or "tails") introduces us to a divided universe (kick off or receive? offense or defense?), a jockstrap yin-yang played out in a temporal dynamic of four quarters in a cycle of Sundays that recapitulates Vico...or is it Ibn Khaldun? I forget...