Word: indexation
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...upshot is probably the most useful tool for shoppers, scholars and bibliophiles ever invented. In fact, there's no reason why you can't use the service to search books you already have on your shelves. No matter how fast you try to thumb to and from the index pages, Amazon's computers can do it faster. Now you know how Garry Kasparov felt when he was beaten by a chess program...
Investor boldness is rising too, a bad sign. Measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange's Market Volatility Index, otherwise known as the VIX, the investing public is less fearful now than at virtually any other point over the past five years. Recently, the VIX stood at 16, down from 50 when the rally began in October 2002. The last time investors were this fearless was in August 2000. And margin loans--the OxyContin of day-trading junkies--are up 16% this year...
Music is always regarded as an index of the times, so a glance at what’s changed in our short student lifetimes could tell us a thing or two. And indeed, there are some lessons in even a casual overview of what has happened to campus music trends just in the last few years...
...though these athletic scholarships are seen as a mechanism to neutralize the Ivy schools’ “brand-name” recognition during the recruiting process, it’s in the best interest of Harvard’s national image, ratings percentage index (RPI) figure and chances for at-large NCAA tournament bids, that its opponents—Clarkson, Rensselaer and St. Lawrence included—be strong...
...study, published recently in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that men with a higher Body Mass Index (BMI)—calculated by dividing a person’s weight in kilograms by height in meters squared—are at less risk for hereditary prostate cancer than men with a lower...