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...attend; she'll be on vacation. Meanwhile, a second edition is being rushed into print. Maybe Maier can quit her day job now. - By Bruce Crumley Music To Their Ears The global music industry is rebounding from five years on the slide. Analysts at Merrill Lynch predict growth of 0.4% in 2005, ahead of further increases the following years. Higher CD sales and legal downloads are prompting the revival...
...about M.C.G. attendances going back to 1921; Walshe computerized this information during the '90s and continues to update it. By cross-referencing factors such as which teams are playing, their positions on the ladder, whether they're last-start winners and the weather forecast for match day, "We can predict with a reasonable degree of certainty (give or take a couple of thousand people) what the crowd will be for upcoming matches," Walshe says. But he offers more than just a number. He makes projections about patrons' likely arrival times and whether they'll have pre-purchased tickets. Take Richmond...
...Robot is just an assembly-line product of a not very advanced model. Can a fantasy fan dream a little and predict that by 2035 sci-fi movies will come up with inventive new ways of frightening us about the future...
...Robot is just an assembly-line product of a not very advanced model. Can a fantasy fan dream a little and predict that by 2035 sci-fi movies will come up with inventive new ways of frightening us about the future...
...stage in the run-up to the Sydney Games in 2000, organizers had sold 50% of their total. Hotel bookings are also down, and earlier this month, Athens workers demanding pay increases threatened mass strikes and walk-outs. On the other hand, TV viewership is looking positively steroidal. Organizers predict a staggering 4 billion viewers worldwide, up from 3.7 billion in 2000. Four thousand TV crew members and 1,000 cameras will produce an unprecedented 3,900 hours of live coverage for audiences from Birmingham to Bangkok. NBC alone says it expects to air three times more coverage than...