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...familiar: klieg lights, blue-draped dais, place cards, Congressmen, a sprinkling of average Americans and the President, headlining another health- care forum. The audience of 150 Kansas business owners was treated to the spectacle of the nation's President, looking every bit the Accountant in Chief, doing business math for a Mexican-restaurant owner, a flower-shop owner, an architect, a construction-company owner and a farmer. Their chief concern was how much money they personally would fork over if his plan became law. Regina Jaramillo was worried about insuring the part-timers at her restaurant. "At 7.9%," Clinton patiently...
What did? Well, yellow ties are out, but avarice remains popular, and the financial universe -- Is anyone surprised? -- still has masters. These new barbarians at the gates of international commerce may have the geeky, high- water-pants look of the typical math grad student, and they may caress their Sun Microsystems workstations rather than I-got-mine mobiles. But nearly everyone agrees that they are even scarier than the gunslingers. They are "math jockeys," "nerds," "pop eyes," "quarks," "techies." Call them quants, for quantitative analysts. They are odd birds indeed, the field biologist discovers, and . . . Hark, here...
During the 1987-88 academic year, the ExtensionSchool offered two sections of "Math E-la:Introduction to the Calculus A." One was taught inScience Center E. The other was held 100 miles tothe west--at Mount Holyoke College in SouthHadley, Mass...
...legalization of a few gambling sites in Massachusetts makes economic sense. Because it limits gambling to specially-approved sites, thus avoiding the Las Vegas spectre of slot machines in laundromats, any negative impact will be limited. Gambling will give brilliant Harvard math majors a chance to practice card-counting skills. Bored Harvard students and post-thesis seniors will have something...
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