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Epidemiologists are often described by the media as "disease detectives," who use statistical tools - carrying out the occasional survey, for example, or, in the case of malaria, using temperature and terrain maps to help predict where disease-carrying mosquitoes may live - to hunt down and eliminate global killers. The comparison is useful for another reason: Disease trackers, like crime solvers, often spend a lot of time sifting through a few, imperfect clues - hunches, really - to piece together a fuller picture. But that picture often ends up being indistinct as well. The WHO says, for example, that the "confidence interval...
...Since its inception, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has grown in both size and scope into the summer music festival. I made the voyage to what’s been called this generation’s Woodstock, harboring an empty hope that the experience would be an appropriate comparison to that summer of ’69. I would like to believe that I am not naïve enough to be disappointed by an event that chose Metallica and Pearl Jam as headliners, that it’s no surprise that the words “sellout?...
...sailed in two events—the Man-Labs Trophy in Cambridge on Saturday and the Captain’s Cup in Medford, Mass. on Sunday. Harvard recorded third- and fourth-place team finishes respectively at the two events.“We’re looking good in comparison to the competition,” junior Liz Powers said. “I’m excited. I think we can do really well if we work hard.”HARRY ANDERSON TROPHYThe Crimson sent a co-ed squad to the Harry Anderson Trophy, hosted by Yale. Despite...
...insanity of a secondary character that nearly stokes a race riot, Pride and Glory has waived all rights to a dispassionate verdict. It's glum and goofy enough make to We Own the Night, the requisite serioso cop drama from last year's festival circuit, seem a masterpiece by comparison...
...director in the first part of JCVD is bored and contemptuous.) Most of the film, though, is unsparing of the Van Damme legend. With the star, now 47, looking puffy and played out, and with so many references to his off-screen philandering and drug use, the movie bears comparison to Mickey Rourke's turn in The Wrestler, also at Toronto. Except that this one is sharper, crueler, way funnier - part parody, part exposé, especially in an eight-minute take of the star in closeup, where Van Damme makes a confession of his personal and career sins...