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...Chaos theory says that behavior that appears to be random is not. The future dynamics of chaotic systems are always defined by their initial conditions. Even the most unruly process cannot defy prediction. That may work for people who have PhDs in math but for the balance of investors chaos is chaos, plain and simple. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...Bunker Hill—at his four different jobs,” she says.Yelbi considers the work as part of a “journey of giving back.” He is now an English as a Second Language tutor, a mentor for new students, and a math tutor for disabled students.LOOKING FORWARD, ANXIOUSLYIn the weeks after he sent his applications, three of the 12 schools that Yelbi applied to informed him that they would not be able to offer him financial aid as an international student, and as a result, could not admit him through their transfer program.Despite...
...Rodriguez ’05, Siegel and Zaccagnino organized roughly 10 pub nights in Loker Commons in order to demonstrate interest in creating a social space. Ultimately, the Queen’s Head was created from what Zaccagnino called “an empty place where people met for math tutoring.” Siegel and Zaccagnino decided to pursue music full-time after Harvard, and they have since founded Indaba Music, a Web-based service that connects musicians around the world and allows them to record music online. The site now boasts more than 100,000 members...
...Europe and Japan, the news is sobering. Our child-poverty and infant-mortality rates are the highest, our life expectancy is the lowest, our budget deficit as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) is the highest, and our 15-year-olds rank among the lowest on tests of math and science...
Here's the problem with that math: the tax system brings in about 18% of GDP, less in a recession - and Obama is even floating a two-year, $300 billion tax cut (roughly 1% of GDP per year). Even worse, our federal revenues are nearly exhausted by just four areas of spending: Social Security and other retirement programs, health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, defense, and interest payments on the public debt. Almost all the rest of our expenditures - from education and infrastructure to international diplomacy and much more - have to be funded by borrowing. We are racking...