Word: minerly
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Forecasting can even save lives. Analyzing variables from claims, patient surveys and lab tests, health plan Hawaii Medical Associates of Honolulu identifies which of its 40,000 diabetic members are most likely to end up in the hospital. A consultant's software program, Enterprise Miner from SAS Institute, based in Cary, N.C., sometimes finds patterns that don't appear in any medical textbook. "Someone with high cholesterol, diabetes and one hospitalization may not be at the same risk as a person with the same profile on a certain type of medication," says medical director Richard Chung, "but the program would...
DIED. JOSHUA MINER, 81, educator who launched the U.S. version of the wilderness self-reliance program Outward Bound; in Andover, Mass. Miner--who had met founder Kurt Hahn in Scotland in 1950--began in Colorado in 1961 with 80 teenagers; 600,000 students, including former President Jimmy Carter, have since taken the course...
...strength and a fall-away jump shot, which allowed him to keep opponents on his hip and then finish them off without attacking the rim. After winning his sixth championship, he retired again. In his third career, Jordan is using his vast experience, the work ethic of a coal miner and the authority of a CEO (he was president of the Wizards' basketball operations until he re-signed as a player) to show the baby Wizards how to win and, if he has to on occasion, to take the game into his own hands...
...ground. It could have been a harvest blaze or the remnants of a cooking fire. But as she stood in the cornfields of this hardscrabble corner of southwest China, Zhang knew better. Like a fisherman's wife who scans the seas when the weather turns turbulent, a coal miner's spouse recognizes the fatal signs: a thread of smoke, a muffled boom and then a rush of blackness flowing from the charred earth. "I knew he had died the moment I saw the smoke," says 36-year-old Zhang of the gas explosion that claimed her husband and others this...
...devils in black pajamas had damn near overrun the LZ at Cholon when we landed. I popped some Willie Peter from the AK, and my mortarman, Joe Biden, let 'em have it with a few bursts of an old Neil Kinnoch speech about his granddad the coal miner going to college. That knocked 'em dead. Victor Charles melted back into the triple-canopy forest, and he took Jane Fonda with...