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...shooting at the Massereene army base in Antrim, north of Belfast, killed two young soldiers and seriously injured four others, including two civilians. Police say the soldiers came under attack when they stepped out to collect a pizza delivery. And by all accounts, the gunmen were intent on nothing less than murder. After they fired their initial shots, they approached the soldiers, some of whom were lying on the ground, and shot them a second time. (See TIME's photos: "New Hope For Belfast...
...with 86 percent accuracy—which the researchers said was a significant improvement over previous models, which only predicted risk with 50 percent accuracy. Originally used for artificial intelligence, the Bayesian network was used to screen 1,313 genes in 569 individuals and turned up 37 that worked collectively to forecast a cardioembolic stroke. Lead author and Medical School Associate Professor Marco F. Ramoni said he first explored predicting stroke risk after observing a high rate of strokes in a 2005 sickle-cell anemia study he conducted. That began a collaboration with Karen L. Furie, Mass. General?...
...sometimes phased out altogether. Following the above history of recorded music, one would suppose that without technology cost, music would once again be “priceless.” In a sense, years of technological leaps have brought us back to square one, where people no longer collect music in its physical manifestation, but rather appreciate it without any costly artifacts. Unfortunately for us though, the artifice of the recording industry is too deeply engrained into our consumerist habits to simply celebrate this new freedom and set up free online catalogues.Now the industry, ostensibly decimated by p2p file sharing...
...informational nightmare," says Andrew Lo, director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering. "It's very hard to collect all the information you need to figure out what these things are worth...
Look under the hood of a bond called Jupiter High-Grade CDO V, and you can understand why we're in trouble. Bankers from the 1970s, when mortgage bonds first took off, would hardly recognize Jupiter. Unlike a traditional bond, Jupiter's underwriter does not buy people's mortgages, collect the payments and pass them on to its investors. Instead, Jupiter holds other mortgage bonds--and not just any. Jupiter's investments are made up of the riskiest portions of other bonds, some of which are themselves a collection of other poorly rated mortgage bonds. In a rising real estate...