Word: predictableness
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...difficult to predict the size of protest crowds, but organizers in both St. Paul and Denver expect as many as 50,000 to protest at each of the conventions, with specific marches spread out over several days. The Democratic convention will be held from Aug. 25-28, while the Republican convention is scheduled for Sept. 1-4, with a major march planned for the first day of the event, Labor...
...accidental discovery has brought seismologists one step closer to being able to predict earthquakes. As part of an unrelated effort to measure underground changes caused by shifts in barometric pressure, a team of researchers found that increases in subterranean pressure preceded earthquakes along California's San Andreas Fault by as much as 10 hours. If follow-up tests advance the findings, seismologists may eventually be able to provide a few hours' notice for people to find safe haven prior to quakes. As the horrific images from China demonstrate, the effort is well worth the alternative. "Predicting earthquakes is the final...
...that Mehta of Ernst & Young jokes that, for a first-time home buyer in the U.K. these days, "getting a mortgage is like winning the lottery." That's an inevitable reaction to a slowing economy and the worldwide financial squeeze triggered by the U.S. subprime debacle. What nobody can predict with certainty is whether there are any huge financial risks still lurking undetected; in the aftermath of the subprime crisis it turns out that many banks underestimated the risks posed by the often-arcane financial instruments they were trading. European banks themselves say that most of the bad news...
...parliamentarians who were tempted to join the opposition will react to the sodomy accusation. Already, Anwar has indefinitely delayed plans to publicly introduce National Front lawmakers whom he says have defected to his camp. Malaysians may have just experienced déjà vu, but few are willing to predict what happens next...
...turmoil of constant local wars and foreign invasions prompted Jaipur's ruler, Jai Singh II, to begin building Jantar Mantar in 1724. The astronomical observatory would allow soothsayers to monitor cosmic shifts so as to better divine auspicious dates for royal enterprises, and to predict the fate of ruler and ruled. Nestled in the heart of New Delhi, Jantar Mantar today is mainly a tourist attraction, although it continues to function as an observatory of sorts - a window into what the writer V.S. Naipaul called "India's million mutinies...