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...doctor or come to a hospital. For every person who shows up in a hospital, however, there are likely hundreds or thousands more infected with H1N1 who never see a health care professional, because they don't get very ill. That means there's a lot of educated guesswork at play. (See "H1N1: How The Virus Works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Unproven H1N1 Flu Vaccine | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...since Netflix lets titles stay out indefinitely, it has no way of determining when a member will return an old movie, and thus when it will become available for you, the next in line. Its categories - Short Wait, Long Wait, Very Long Wait - have to be based on guesswork. For titles whose supply is very limited, could Netflix establish a one- or two-week limit, with penalties attached? And to you poky members: Watch the damn movie and send it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Ways to Fix Netflix | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...myriad hardships afflicting the world's poor, whose suffering too often escapes the gaze of the developed world. But the role of human-caused climate change in spawning the disasters is simply asserted more often than it's convincingly demonstrated. Critics have huffed that the report features more guesswork than science, ridiculing one calculation that factors in the frequency of earthquakes to determine global warming's impact on weather disasters (the authors do concede a "significant margin of error"). Specifics aside, the report is doubtless intended to haunt world leaders as they gather in Copenhagen later this year to negotiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Human Cost of Climate Change | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

...able to make mistakes and see where they lead you. I started working in the shop in the Loeb not knowing what a screw gun did and went from there,” she explains.Laubacher’s trial-and-error philosophy allows for mistakes, guesswork, and creative intuition, as well as a great deal of collaboration. The set for “Sweeney Todd” is closest to her heart because its versatile and striking design was produced by group effort. “In a really profound way, every work of a single individual...

Author: By Ali R. Leskowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grace C. Laubacher ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...financial system, almost everyone seems to be in favor of continuing that partnership. What confronts us at the moment is not so much a philosophical debate over nationalization as a practical discussion about how best to put the banking system back on its feet. We're talking tactics, judgments--guesswork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nationalizing Banks: What's All the Fuss? | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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