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From his office at UCLA, where he is a professor in residence, Keilis-Borok appears to be taking the setback in stride. At some point, he says, he had expected this to happen, adding, "If we made no mistakes, that would mean the problem of earthquake prediction is easy, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecasting: The Quake Watcher: CAN HE PREDICT THE NEXT BIG ONE? | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

CAN SCIENTISTS FORECAST MAJOR EARTH-quakes months before they happen? Most experts are dubious, but that hasn't stopped Vladimir Keilis-Borok from trying. And for a while the mathematical geophysicist, 83, seemed to be on a roll. In September 2003, within a time frame Keilis-Borok and colleagues had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecasting: The Quake Watcher: CAN HE PREDICT THE NEXT BIG ONE? | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

The difficulty, in fact, is something Keilis-Borok seems to relish. He started wrestling with quake prediction in the 1960s and persevered well past the point where many others had given up. The leader of an international team of some 20 researchers, KB, as he is known to colleagues, now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecasting: The Quake Watcher: CAN HE PREDICT THE NEXT BIG ONE? | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

“Everyone turned to him and said, ‘What did you just say?’,” Heymach remembers, which then prompted Robbins—now a Rabbi in the Philadelphia area—to repeat the doomsday prediction. He concluded, ?...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gettin' Hurt '80s Style | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

This one’s going to come down to which team’s crappy offense shines relative to the other team’s crappy offense. Or it’s going to come down to something strange, like a blocked field goal that’s returned...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivy League | 9/24/2004 | See Source »

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