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When researcher Karen Clark developed the first probability-based model for measuring the threat of natural disasters in the U.S. in 1987, almost no one cared. Clark, then 30, started her own company in Boston and used tens of thousands of data points--from the wind speeds of hurricanes to the lengths of fault lines--to help insurance firms estimate how often a disaster might strike and how much harm it might do. Then, in 1992, Hurricane Andrew struck, wreaking more havoc than anyone--except Clark and her small team at AIR Worldwide Corp.--had ever imagined possible...
Coatsworth said the Santiago office might well serve as a model for future University study abroad programs...
...questions on his mind will be, ‘Is the David Rockefeller Center in Santiago a model that could be replicated in other parts of the world to promote the globalization of the university?’” Coatsworth said. “I assume the answer...
...Gatsby? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s character, out of one of Farkes’ favorite books, is his final possible role model...
...individual choices that we face as people trying to influence our society,” he said. “Today’s class was a model of that debate...