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...There is no way to accurately predict anyone's future health," observed Dr. John D. Eckstein, McCain's personal physician in a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon. But Eckstein said he found no evident signs of medical problems that would prevent McCain from running the country. "We can find nothing in his history that would preclude him from serving as president of the United States with vigor," he said...
...mega-projects across Alberta's oil sands rival some of humankind's greatest engineering achievements, including the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. After thousands of years, those ancient projects still bear witness to history. Conservative estimates predict the tar sands will give out in just 70 years. Their legacy to Canada is yet to be written, but it may be a great deal bigger than expectations. With new deposits still being found and technologies improving, the sands could produce for a couple of hundred years more. Forget Venezuela. Canada may become the new Saudi Arabia...
...there is a tendency for them to become more risk averse--a concept called "loss aversion" made famous by Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who studied behavioral economics. Kahneman and Tversky found that people don't always behave in the rational manner that the classical economic models predict. When they get ahead in the game, they may begin to get conservative--playing it safe even when the odds say a big wager is likely...
...What is more difficult to predict, however, is what that same student might choose to do if they found themselves or their partner pregnant and unable to have a child for emotional or physical reasons. It is unwise and irresponsible for students with moderate pro-life leanings to exclude themselves from participation in this service—especially if they’ve been persuaded to do so largely, or even partially, for monetary reasons...
...April 19. Now, police officers are assigned to patrol South Austin's tree-lined streets during the day - on foot and bike. By night, those patrols are to be reinforced with SWAT units and helicopters equipped with motion sensors. The saturation strategy, Weis argues, makes it easier to predict crime, and respond when they occur. "We're trying to have a visible presence," he says, adding, "Sometimes, that kind of deterrence is effective...