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...appeared before a congressional committee to outline his plan to hike up ticket prices for peak-hour flights - thereby, he hopes, reducing congestion around the nation's airports. While a form of this pricing structure already exists, thanks to simple market pressures, this formula would take much of the guesswork out of pricing flights, establishing a definitive ancillary expense for peak-hour flyers...
...Most radio sites offer broadcasts in RealPlayer or Windows Media Player and include links for downloading player software. Once the software is installed, click on the live broadcast link (you may have to do a little guesswork to click the right buttons on foreign-language stations) and you'll be connected in about 30 seconds. As long as your Internet connection remains live, so will the radio broadcast. There can be disruptions due to Net congestion, which chops up the signal like old-fashioned static, and, if you're loading another page or working on a document, the stream...
...this Special Report is about what Time's editors, writers and correspondents see for the year 2001, in fields ranging from politics to pop music. It is mostly guesswork, of course, but it is guesswork built on the basis of a general knowledge of how the world operates and a specific knowledge of our various areas of expertise. We could be wrong, spectacularly so, and we accept the risk of being called to task when, this time next year, our readers wave this issue beneath our chagrined noses. But we think we'll be right, in general terms at least...
...long shot. Only 1 out of 5,000 potential drugs makes it from the lab to the medicine chest (a process that can take as long as 15 years). But the odds are better now than when tranquilizers came largely from inspired guesswork. Computerized brain scans, DNA probes and other technological wizardry have given drugmakers powerful new tools for understanding at a molecular level the brain's inner workings--and how chemicals affect them...
...hardworking Palm Beach canvassers one day and sued them the next. He wanted to count every vote, but countenanced his supporters' efforts to get thousands thrown out. He vowed to honor voter intent, a goal that lost some of its nobility as the nation saw how many kinds of guesswork that would take. So uneven was Gore's footing in the public relations war that one often quoted adviser made a practice of instantly deleting the daily talking points the campaign would send him by e-mail...