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...Visiting Fellow for the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government. He now serves as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan Washington think tank. In an interview with The Crimson on Monday, Gerson said a speechwriter often cannot predict which points the public and the news media will view as salient in any given speech. One such case was President Bush’s famed branding of North Korea, Iraq, and Iran as the “axis of evil” in his 2002 State of the Union Address, which...
...can’t tell you exactly when that is going to happen,” Chertoff responded. “The fact that I can’t predict when the war is going to end doesn’t mean that it isn?...
...government proposal to use primitive measures to control a killer flu outbreak until a vaccine and treatment drugs are available. But HSPH experts say that the results of the study are still up in the air. “I don’t think anyone can predict the outcome,” HSPH Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert J. Blendon said. Under this contingency plan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would promote traditional approaches for contagion control such as washing your hands or covering your mouth when you sneeze. For his part, CDC quarantine...
There are plenty of goodtravel sites, so any new entry needs to have a better idea. Farecast.com uses fearsome computer power to predict the direction of plane fares. That helps travelers figure out the optimum time to buy a ticket. It was founded by Oren Etzioni, who created the Web's first meta-search site (it scans multiple search engines) and first shopping-comparison tool. Farecast uses an algorithm to crunch 100 billion prices in its database, then evaluates 200 attributes that affect plane fares. From those trillions of combinations, it figures out whether you should buy a ticket...
...DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN runs an interesting piece on websites that predict your chances of getting into particular schools: Questions range from the basic to the blunt. ThickEnvelope, for example, asks clients: "Would you say that your mother or father is a nationally recognized, very important person or well-known celebrity?"What the DP doesn't do, but could have, is pay for some ex-post-facto predicting, checking to see if the sites are any good at guessing whether current Penn students would be admitted to the school...