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...theory, and it's well known to large companies. Queuing theory is also one of the forces behind Ethernet technology, which has made it possible for various people to send vast amounts of information along a network at the same time. You never hear data complain, do you? The gist of it is that you can use a complicated mathematical model to predict, say, how many people will arrive at a checkout counter at a certain time--and therefore staff just the right number of folks needed to meet the demand. Unfortunately, all too many companies seem to divide that...
...N.A.A.C.P.," he acknowledges. "Is the N.A. really for the A.C.P.?" Several years ago, he says, a series on racism began with the argument that in order to move on, the South had to reject racism. In a later installment, a writer took issue with that. Sullivan remembered the gist of the article being, "Why I will not condemn Southern racism: we've got nothing to be ashamed...
...Crimson apologizes to those from whom the material was taken: the Saint Louis University Theatre, the Boise State University Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, Independent News and Media PLC and Richard Gist of Towson University...
Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the U.S. and the Helsinki and Turku Universities in Finland are already trying Glivec on a rare abdominal cancer called GIST (for gastrointestinal stromal tumor). More common malignancies, such as cancers of the breast and colon, arise as a result of several genetic accidents and so are unlikely to respond to Glivec. But at the very least, the drug's preliminary successes have given cancer researchers promising avenues to pursue. And sometimes that...
...David Broder, in his Washington Post column on Wednesday, and Harvard economist Richard Freeman and think-tanker Eileen Appelbaum in the New York Times on Thursday, all raise the admittedly intriguing idea of the "prosperity dividend." The gist: Wait until the surplus is a surplus before you send it back. At the end of the fiscal year, if there's money left over in the federal budget, simply cut every taxpayer in America a check...