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...DIED. JOHN POPLE, 78, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing a computer program that helps scientists better predict chemical reactions; in Chicago. An Englishman, Pople taught himself calculus from a discarded textbook while in high school and became the first in his family to go to college. His program is still used in a wide variety of studies, ranging from the effects of pollutants on the ozone layer to the testing of drugs for the treatment of HIV. When he was knighted last year, the self-effacing Pople said that his achievements as a scientist...
This new work has improved economic prediction. With Laibson’s models, they can now predict patterns of credit card borrowing, saving in 401k plans and even addictions. “You know that you have been incredibly influential when your work is used and people stop mentioning your name because its part of the common language of the discipline,” says Benjamin...
...steering the process into port. Two plans for organizing an interim Iraqi government have come undone, and there is no new one yet. "If this were computer software," says a senior U.S. intelligence officer, "we'd be on version 3-point-something by now." Military commanders on the ground predict that bloody attacks, which now target Iraqis more than Americans, will surge as dissidents try to thwart Bush's progress. And everyone in Iraq and abroad will continue to hold the U.S. responsible for whatever happens...
...influence the outcome of elections elsewhere. Britons are expected to vote next year, while U.S. voters go to the polls in November, and the incentive will clearly be there for al-Qaeda-related groups to make their mark on those elections, too. It doesn't take a soothsayer to predict that new terror attacks in Britain or the U.S. would be more likely to stampede the voters behind Blair and Bush than to bolster any antiwar challengers. But that's unlikely to stop the terrorists from trying...
...never predict the actions of the general court,” said Gomes, who came out as gay in 1991 after a Harvard student magazine devoted an issue to articles criticizing homosexuality...