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Despite all the accolades, Ford earned a reputation among his students as a private and modest teacher with a lean, yet erudite lecture style. He was known to offer tacit guidance rather than overbearing direction...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Dean of the Faculty Ford Dead at 82 | 8/15/2003 | See Source »

...polls in predicting elections. Similar markets have been useful in predicting oil prices and ticket sales. The theory is simple: when people have something at stake, they act on their deepest convictions, which generates the most accurate information. The market is restricted to a few hundred experts with a modest investment limit. Allowing CIA, State Department and Pentagon authorities to wager their own money on a terrorist strike would quickly aggregate their wisdom and perhaps provide leads. Meanwhile, there's collateral damage. Sources tell TIME that a prototype market for health officials to wager on a SARS outbreak--to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Futures: Good Concept, Bad P.R. | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

Steen said he foresaw a modest paring-down of the UA program, eliminating between five and 10 positions...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS Network Adds New Linux Servers | 8/8/2003 | See Source »

...Just a generation ago, long-haul travel belonged almost exclusively to the rich or the most diligent of savers. For ordinary, middle-class wage earners, a trip beyond the nearest continent was a once-in-a-lifetime splurge?something aspired to as the crowning extravagance in a modest career. Then in the 1980s, an era of cataclysmic change in the airline industry, overseas fares came tumbling down. As air traffic grew, hotels were built at a far quicker pace than before. Asian tourism boards launched huge, well-funded publicity campaigns, and Western travel media obliged with extensive coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Beach too Far | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...some might say "was," for Stallone is at least a decade past his uber-hunk prime. Of his star vehicles after 1994, the top U.S. grosser (a modest $45 million) was the arty Cop Land. His last action film, D-Tox, hardly played in theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Those Guys Look Like Rocky | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

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