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...Crude as it was, Burgess’s algorithm predicted parole violation more accurately than psychiatrists who had access to all the same information. You see, the psychiatrists had a handicap: they had interviewed the prisoners and based their judgments on informal impressions. Burgess’s study revealed an unintuitive truth: quick, subjective human judgments are flawed...
...Palestinian rocket fire into Israel from Gaza has continued incessantly since 2003, and Israeli military planners and politicians know that it's only a matter of time before one of the crude homemade rockets hits a school or a supermarket, killing many Israelis...
Animals have had it even worse. If prostheses existed at all, they have been comparatively crude things. Surgeons have had some success attaching artificial beaks to birds that veterinarians suspect were mutilated by fishermen who didn't want the animals competing for their catch. Dogs and cats with disabled hind legs are often strapped into little carts that let them get around using just their forelimbs. But those low-tech fixes had been more or less as far as it went...
...palaces and talk about sharing power--a meeting that both continue to deny. It was an act of desperation by a man the U.S. has long regarded as an irreplaceable ally in the war on terrorism. Opinion polls show that the majority of Pakistanis want Musharraf out, and his crude attempts to control the judiciary have backfired and created new foes. Taken together, these factors could undermine his bid to extend his rule beyond his current tenure, which expires in November. Even some within Pakistan's powerful army, which Musharraf still heads, are beginning to grumble...
However, few U.S. law enforcement agencies have the forensic tools at hand and criminals often exploit that advantage, stymieing investigators with simple if crude methods. Drug dealers, Mislan says, will buy throwaway phones, assign distinctive rings to customers or suppliers, and then destroy the screen, leading an arresting officer to believe the phone is broken or the phone's information is inaccessible. (Old-style forensics often means laboriously photographing cell phone screen after cell phone screen to record evidence...