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...anticrime efforts, but the ceo of this organization--a slim, well-tended man who wears his reading glasses slung low on an impressive nose--barely looks up from his papers. Police Commissioner William Bratton designed these Comstat (short for computer statistics) meetings as a way to make his 76 far-flung precinct commanders--and 38,000 cops--accountable for the crime rate. Nobody had ever done it before, and it's working: total felonies in New York City are down 27% in just two years, to levels not seen since the early 1970s...
Where did this extraordinary bestiary come from, and why did it emerge so quickly? In recent years, no question has stirred the imagination of more evolutionary experts, spawned more novel theories or spurred more far-flung expeditions. Life has occupied the planet for nearly 4 billion of its 4.5 billion years. But until about 600 million years ago, there were no organisms more complex than bacteria, multicelled algae and single-celled plankton. The first hint of biological ferment was a plethora of mysterious palm-shape, frondlike creatures that vanished as inexplicably as they appeared. Then, 543 million years...
...even though nobody has a handle on the underlying dynamics, the link between far-flung weather patterns and the North American hurricane season appears solid. Indeed, for the past 12 years, Gray has routinely used El Nino, Sahel rainfall and other factors to make impressively accurate predictions. Last October he forecast 12 major tropical storms for 1995, and in early August he upped the number to 16, just five storms shy of the record set in 1933 and more than double the number in 1994. "People thought we'd gone crazy," says Gray. "Now it appears we probably undershot...
...N.R.A. IS BEYOND DOUBT THE ATF'S most committed opponent. Over the years the 3.5 million-member organization has built an infrastructure to ensure that far-flung cases of alleged ATF abuse get direct scrutiny from Congress. The organization is relentless. "The natural enemy of a gopher is a rattlesnake," says Gerry Spence, the flamboyant Wyoming defense attorney who defended Randy Weaver after the federal siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. "The natural enemy of the N.R.A...
...looked to reassert itself in the personal-computer software market by tendering a hostile $3.3 billion bid for Lotus Development Corp. Its star asset: the popular Lotus Notes groupware program, which allows far-flung users to work simultaneously on the same document. Lotus' stock jumped more than $3 just before IBM's bid was announced, raising suspicions on Wall Street of insider trading. NOVITZ...