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FARMERS' ALMANAC Forecast: The slightly younger rival publication says that "virtually the entire country will be subjected to stormy and unseasonably cold conditions for the upcoming winter, even in the so-called 'Sun-Belt' areas..." Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Forecast: Indicators tilt slightly toward a milder-than-normal winter in most of the southern half of the country, a dryer-than-normal winter in the northern Rockies and the Florida Peninsula and a wetter-than-normal winter in much of the south central portions of the country. Methodology: Computer analysis of global atmospheric and oceanic data...
...FARMER'S ALMANAC Forecast: "Snowfall is expected to be above normal in much of the eastern and central parts of the country...Snowfall in the Rocky Mountains and Northwest will generally be below normal..." Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...
Like an economics student analyzing inflation, interest and unemployment rates and coming up with a forecast of which way the economy will go, the Duke databank, now a part of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, correlates important information about the body--enzyme levels, age, family history--into a prediction of how a given patient will respond to a certain type of treatment. Doctors on five continents dial into the system, type in the critical components of their patient's problem and get a recommendation for treatment based on the thousands of patients who have passed that way before...
...sure that it will dismay both the Republicans, who will have just officially named Bob Dole their candidate, and the Democrats, who will be about to convene and reanoint Bill Clinton. Dole is assailing Clinton for being willing to settle for inadequate growth, as evidenced by the 2.5% 1996 forecast. Dole's advisers think a promise of faster acceleration, to be achieved largely by tax cuts, may be just the thing to bring the President down. Clinton boasts that he has already achieved robust growth--10 million new jobs since his Inauguration--and his advisers promise to push it beyond...