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...Things like this do happen," McEvoy said. "No one can predict two zambonis going down...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Zambonis Send Smoke Into Ice Rink, Force Game Delays | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...precipitated Barak's decline, and any respite offered by the religious party is likely to be temporary. And that leaves Barak forced to either sweeten the unity deal for Sharon by giving him effective veto over any peace initiatives, or else face new elections that pollsters right now predict he'll almost certainly lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Pressure, Barak Has to Make a U-Turn | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

DIED. LESLIE KISH, 90, statistician who formulated, among other things, the "margin of error," an assessment of the accuracy of opinion polls; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Kish used his new population sampling techniques in 1948 to predict a narrow Truman victory over Dewey--when almost everyone had forecast a Dewey landslide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 23, 2000 | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

Rick Davis, a former campaign aide to Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) and an ubiquitous campus presence since he became an IOP fellow this fall, reminded students that voter registration does not necessarily predict voter turnout and urged students to go to the polls...

Author: By Ari D. Brettman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HYPE Pushes Voter Registration | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

Keiko has shown signs of wanting to mate, which may push him to try to join a group with fertile females, but whether he will be accepted into a pod is impossible to predict. He also has to "unlearn" what he was taught during his long years in captivity. Bit by bit, he has had to be distanced from humans, and his trainers reluctantly have had to drop, albeit gradually, the affectionate fuss they made over him. Physically, too, Keiko has had to be conditioned for a different life. The easy parts were training him to swim faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Go, Keiko, Go! | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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