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...Despite these minor setbacks, most council members deem Gusmorino's first term a triumph and predict great things for his next--and he'll have help...

Author: By Alexander B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Under New Management | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...related to any broader city-wide ordinance or movement,?says Dennis OShea, executive director of communications and public affairs. ?e chose not to tie ourselves to a moving target. It would be irresponsible for the university to tie its fiscal well-being on something we could not predict.?Before the university? resolution in 1999, 762 full-time workers and 246 part-time workers made less than $7.75 per hour. Currently, all workers except the subcontracted workers at the Hopkins Health Center are earning wages above the mandatory level...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Makes Sense of Living Wage Figure | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...overkilling by human was a conceivable cause of the wave of extinction, which occurred about 1200 years after humans are believed to have arrived in North America 13,400 years ago. The simulation took into account factors ranging from population density to hunting ability, and was able to correctly predict the extinction of 32 out of the 41 species studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wooly Whodunit — Man Killed the Mammoth | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...Stuart Kauffman--philosopher, medical doctor, evolutionary biologist and entrepreneur--all these problems underscore a single phenomenon: complex, self-organizing systems continuously adapt to and change with their environments but do so in ways that are impossible to predict. It's a head scratcher. In a universe damned by entropy to gradual dissolution, things sure seem pretty well put together. So, how is it that evolving systems as diverse as the biosphere, your immune system or the global economy have grown from nothing into organizations of imponderable complexity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature's Bottom Line | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...forces behind Ethernet technology, which has made it possible for various people to send vast amounts of information along a network at the same time. You never hear data complain, do you? The gist of it is that you can use a complicated mathematical model to predict, say, how many people will arrive at a checkout counter at a certain time--and therefore staff just the right number of folks needed to meet the demand. Unfortunately, all too many companies seem to divide that number by two. Starbucks tries to predict how many customers will come in and what drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Your Service: Getting Queued In | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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