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...sporadic power blackouts, further testimony to a botched deregulation effort that failed to encourage adding capacity in that state. Sizzling temperatures last Monday saw rolling blackouts for 103,000 customers. On Tuesday blackouts affected 300,000 more. Movie theaters went dark. Restaurants closed. Traffic lights went kaput. State officials predict 34 more such days before the fall. And in a frightening report, consultants at McKinsey & Co. say there could be a blackout somewhere in California on every single weekday over the summer...
Idea density turns out to be an astonishingly powerful predictor of Alzheimer's disease--at least among the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Snowdon found by reading nuns' early writings, he could predict, with 85% to 90% accuracy, which ones would show the brain damage typical of Alzheimer's disease about 60 years later. "When we first looked at the findings," says Snowdon, "we thought, 'Oh my God, it's in the bag by the time you're in your...
...years after he first climbed Good Counsel Hill, Snowdon has identified half a dozen factors that may predict or contribute to Alzheimer's disease. He could sit each sister down right now and tell her what her chances are. But should he? As he has all along, Snowdon will put his dilemma to the sisters themselves: next month he will meet with the Notre Dame leadership to discuss whether to break the news to the high-risk nuns--and how to answer the inevitable questions about what they might do to prevent or slow down the disease...
You’d think with all the Phi Beta Kappas in their midst PSLM would have been able to predict what will happen when Summers receives the committee’s report...
...care how many Survivors you have," Colby said, "you'll never be able to predict the winner." And I don't care how unabashedly plastic the Live in the CBS Studio Tribal Council finale was - we'll forgive almost anything as long as it preserves the suspense...