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Hall's listeners were his neighbors, a retired Navy officer, an antiques dealer, several social workers and perhaps a farmer, though farmers are rarer than poets in New Hampshire these days. They were on hand to honor Hall and English words, and even baseball, if that is what was asked. Though some of them probably imagine that Carl Yastrzemski and Ted Williams too still play for the Red Sox, and most of the rest never heard of these heroes...
Another area where computerized worlds seem to mimic the real one is economics. J. Doyne Farmer, a physicist formerly at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been struck by how the mathematics of complexity seems to explain the workings of the stock market, which, like a biological system, involves constant adaptation to change by individual participants. After playing with computer models, Farmer decided it was time for a reality test of the theory. He and several partners founded Prediction Co., an Albuquerque, New Mexico, investment firm that uses math to try to beat the financial markets. Says Farmer...
...Even if Farmer gets rich, there will be skeptics who dismiss the idea that complexity is the scientific revolution its proponents claim. The critics, writes physicist and sometime Santa Fe Institute visitor Daniel Stein in the December issue of Physics Today, can rightly ask, "Why is it necessary to force ((these phenomena)) under a single umbrella?" Yet there can be no doubt that investigations of complexity and chaos have at least made things more interesting. Comments Rockefeller University physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum: "Now we see things we didn't notice before, and we ask questions we didn't know...
Ivan Demjanjuk came to the United States with his wife and daughter in February 1952. The Demjanjuks were allowed passage under the Displaced Persons Act, which allowed Europeans displaced by World War II to enter the U.S. In his immigration papers, he indicated he had been a farmer during...
...less his decision to continue Bush's policy of returning boat people by force, without checking if any were fleeing persecution by the thugs who run Haiti. Batteries for radios are hard to come by in the countryside where these people had lived. Elias Volcaire, a 24-year-old farmer from St. Marc, just stared blankly when asked if he was angry at Clinton's change of policy. "Clinton? Who's that?" he asked. Only one of the returnees seemed to know. "Before he was President, Clinton said he wasn't going to turn us back," he said...