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...doesn't do you any great good to be able to say there's going to be an earthquake five seconds from now, or five years from now," Steim says, nothing that the most effective prediction would be to pin-point an earthquake within five days. "The goal of being able to do that with that kind of accuracy is, right now, unachievable...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Seismology Device Yields More Accuracy | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

...hard to pin down a reason why Harvard has not shown a killer instinct. Maybe Murphy and company need to learn how to be a front-runner after a few years of futility...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Gridders Lack Killer Instinct | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...useful to point fingers when one student is dead and other will follow? Would prosecuting Kreger's fraternity for serving alcohol to minors be anything but hypocritical, when it has been functioning with little protest for decades? It may be therapeutic to pin the guilt on someone, but the more significant challenge in the wake of Krueger's death will be to prevent its repetition...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Dying for a Drink | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

With the infection rate increasing, Seaman asked for an entomologist to pin down the vector, or carrier, of the disease and its habitat. MSF sent Canadian Judith Schorscher from her base in Paris. She spent six months using fans to suck insects into traps, where they could be dissected and analyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESCUE IN SUDAN | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...been how to reach the aging boomers, who, for all their vast numbers, are already starting to fall through the marketing cracks. While the generation that once trusted no one over 30 is growing too old to fit conventional youth categories, it remains too turbulent and diverse to pin down. This worries both advertisers and organizations such as the American Association of Retired Persons, the powerful Washington lobby group for the elderly. Its membership has dropped from 33 million in 1995 to 32 million today, despite A.A.R.P.'s uncannily prompt mailing of applications to boomers as they reach the half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGE IS NO BARRIER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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