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...remember that the formulas used by both life insurers and online calculators are statistical. The most they can do is predict how long the average person with characteristics similar to yours will live - they can't address you directly. For a life insurance company - which makes or loses money based on large numbers of policy holders living or dying later or earlier than expected - these averages matter. "I need to know that on average, you're going to die at 82," Graham says. "That average doesn't mean anything to you. I don't know that I would make...
...elaborate kickback scheme in the late 1990s. Four top leadership candidates each say they are perfect for the job of reinvigorating the party and have spent eight months wooing Liberal delegates who will be casting ballots. But the campaign is ending with a contest so close no one can predict the outcome of the final vote, which will take place Saturday...
Harvard returned to a pre-e-mail age this morning as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences servers malfunctioned. A FAS Computing Services employee said that the division couldn't predict when inboxes and course Web sites would be fully operational again...
...minutes." Thoughts like this seem to flush Eno with fresh enthusiasm and optimism that the world is catching on to his ideas. The randomness, uncertainty and unknowability he explores in his art are, he says, demonstrated daily in life by the failure of political planners and strategists to predict, let alone solve, the world's problems or to avoid wars they cannot win. "People comprehend this at gut level," says Eno, "and it makes them want different kinds of experiences in their art." And, perhaps, it makes them want some art in their daily experiences. Witness Nokia, which...
...meeting Tuesday in Ankara with Turkey's head of religious affairs, Ali Bardakoglu, will be a chance for Benedict to try to definitively close the two-month fallout from his provocative remarks about Islam and the prophet Muhammad during a lecture at a German university. Many have tried to predict what the Pope might say about Islam, but most Vatican sources assure TIME that the Turkey trip will most definitely not be the occasion for a provocative follow-up to his University of Regensburg speech. Taking a cue from his predecessor, Benedict will try instead to speak with symbolic gestures...