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Researchers used the securities—online wagers on the likelihood that Saddam will be deposed by a certain date—as an indicator of people’s perception of the possibility of war. They correlated an increase in these bets values with market losses...
...incidence of the disease in 18,172 men and women ages 50 to 69 who had been or still were heavy smokers, researchers at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center devised a mathematical model that predicts the likelihood that lung cancer will be diagnosed in a smoker within 10 years. You can find the model on the Web at www.mskcc.org...
Even if the U.S. finds a way of getting nine members of the U.N. Security Council to approve an Iraq resolution, the likelihood is that at least one nation will veto it. The veto, a privilege of the Council's five permanent members, has been exercised 252 times since the U.N. was founded in 1945. It has killed many U.N. initiatives over the years, though it occasionally has been circumvented. But if the U.S. heads for Iraq in spite of a veto by France or another permanent member of the Security Council, it would mark the first time a Council...
...compelling reason has been presented for why Lewis, an experienced and dedicated administrator, could not himself have survived the juggling. It is telling that while Gross, a Kirby appointee, has survived this supposedly sweeping change, Lewis is not even under consideration for the newly proposed position. The overwhelming likelihood is that Lewis’ removal has little to do with this administrative evolution, and everything to do with the personal and ideological clashes that Lewis has had with University President Lawrence H. Summers in the years since his installation. Kirby’s decision to announce Lewis’ departure...
Actually, the likelihood is an unpredictable scatter of good and bad results. But Carter is speaking about the intensity of what is about to occur. The rules that have been violated are those that govern the etiquette of complex international relations--the rules of diplomacy. The notion, for example, that the President of the U.S. would challenge our oldest allies to a public showdown is quite remarkable. (Presidents usually do the precise opposite: they struggle to avoid any appearance of disunity.) This is a breathtaking gamble, and the question arises: Is it witting or not? Is the Administration's disdain...