Word: predictabilities
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...year 2004 was one for the record books: the world economy grew at its fastest rate in almost three decades. And most observers predict that growth in 2005 will continue to be relatively robust. The developed world, to paraphrase British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's 1957 proclamation to his countrymen, has rarely had it so good. Why, then, are so many economists so nervous? When TIME's annual Board of Economists round table met during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, the discussion focused less on what is going right in the global economy than...
...anyone who believes" the Bush Administration will make a serious effort on the deficits, "I didn't find them." Unless priorities change, she expects short-term interest rates in the U.S. to continue rising steadily until they hit about 5%--double their present level--and she and Sachs predict painful budget cuts and a U.S. recession in the medium term. "There'll be a wearing and exhausting process ahead. We're only in the first stage, and it'll get ugly before it gets better," Sachs said...
...designed for the Color Pixter electronic sketchpad. The brainchild of M.I.T. professor Tod Machover, Symphony Painter ($20, fisher-price.com; Color Pixter sold separately) combines visual arts and music: you draw a picture and then press the triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation of your artwork. Experienced musicians might predict some outcomes: lines curving up tend to produce increasingly higher pitches, and parallel lines generate harmonies. Different colors represent different instruments' melodic riffs or percussion beats, and the stylus can change tempo. Machover thinks formal notation systems are restrictive. "You would never tell a 5-year-old to imitate...
COREY FELDMAN could see more press attention than he has since The Goonies. As for spoon-bending psychic URI GELLER, we predict you might actually recognize him in the future...
Twenty years later, the only real reason people still recognize guitarist Nikki Sixx is VH1’s undying desire to revel in the miracle that is his survival. But does a band with the foresight to predict an age in which their drugs and sex will merit multiple VH1 specials deserve a 37-track greatest hits compilation? Not really. The Crüe’s release is an unwanted trip down memory lane that demonstrates that the only lasting addition to pop culture Tommy Lee has made is a pandemic of hepatitis...