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...formula seems to be working. Nearly 800 fellows as young as 18 and as old as 82 have been christened since 1981. Among their feats: slowing the speed of light (optical physicist Lene Hau, 2001), mapping the human genome (geneticist Eric Lander, 1987), penning acclaimed novels (Cormac McCarthy, 1981; the recently deceased David Foster Wallace, 1997), scheming to save our threatened fisheries (lobsterman Ted Ames, 2005) and solving Fermat's Last Theorem (mathematician Andrew Wiles, 1997). Seven have nabbed the Nobel Prize, including geneticist Barbara McClintock (1981) and former U.S. poet laureate Joseph Brodsky (1981). Others have won Pulitzers, Fields...
...Marriott attack, with the implication that only an experienced terrorist group could have carried it out. But just about anyone can make a car bomb. Designs are available are on the Internet. Karl Armstrong, the man who blew up a University of Wisconsin building in 1970, found the formula for his fertilizer car bomb in the Encyclopedia Britannica...
...assumptions). "People shouldn't bury themselves in the mathematics, because the mathematics are only tools," says Kenneth Froot, a professor at Harvard Business School who teaches courses in risk management. "One needs to have a wide and robust vocabulary to talk about risk, simply because no single mathematical formula is going to capture all of what risk...
...contract to provide housing for people who otherwise wouldn't be housed by the private sector," he says. "HUD's job is to pay us for doing it, but they are consistently late on their payments." Costs and maintenance increases, furthermore, are not being met by HUD's formula, which Chaussee says is way behind market rate. He is now involved in a lawsuit against the agency. Chausee says he believes as more Section 8 contracts expire, more property owners will opt out of the program. "I know attorneys who are advising their clients to file their opt-out paperwork...
...Jack Donaghy and Liz Lemon going to hook up? -Scott Jorna, LondonWell, if they do, I hope they read my book about the pitfalls of high-conflict divorce. No, they're not going to hook up. The formula is better when they don't. Keep people wanting them to hook up, because once they do, the tension is gone...