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...course, no model, no matter how sophisticated, is foolproof. And this one won't tell you who should get a lung scan. That's something smokers and ex-smokers should decide with their doctors. And if you need any more reasons to quit, consider this: in some ways, a little smoking may be as bad as a lot. Researchers looking at the lining of blood vessels were surprised to find the same damage whether the subjects smoked a pack a day or a pack a week. When it comes to smoking, the odds are always against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are Your Odds? | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...depressed market, a bankable rally in the not-too-distant future, and a floor under share prices? Well, here's the disclaimer: If it sounds foolproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Your Big Chance to Beat the Street? | 2/8/2003 | See Source »

...scattered speech which actually did very little to elucidate just how liberals and terrorists are suffering from the same disease. “It’s a little something I like to call racial profiling.” According to Coulter, racial profiling at airports is such a foolproof measure against terrorism that only a paper like the “Treason Times”—also occasionally referred to as The New York Times—would be so unpatriotic as to publish editorials against...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, | Title: All Mouth and No Brain | 10/29/2002 | See Source »

Obviously, if the budget’s bottom line is the reason for only looking at white coaches, the BCA is right in focusing on economic, not moral persuasion. For one thing, moral persuasion is not very foolproof. It might result instead in a situation where lip service is paid to minority hiring (putting a token black candidate on a list of candidates, for example). To go after a college, any college, you’ve got to aim right for the pocketbook...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The RaHooligan: Black Coaches Deserve Fair Shot | 10/23/2002 | See Source »

...Most people realize their mistake and return the item,” he says. “The student storage areas are what they are. They’re not always foolproof...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Missing Futons, Sofas Anger Storage Users | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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