Word: randomly
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...President Charles M. Vest sent a letter to the Institute's community Monday, calling the crime "a random, totally senseless murder." Vest urged students and staff to discuss the murder and to seek counseling if necessary...
...great tradition of Harvard public service, more Crimson athletes will be donating their urine to the NCAA this year. The NCAA's random drug testing program, which has been in effect since 1986, has expanded this year to include track and field athletes, according to newly appointed NCAA Liasons Coordinator Marcella Zelot...
Since 1986, teams competing in NCAA post-reason tournaments have been subjected to random drug tests. In 1990, the NCAA introduced mandatory random drug testing during the regular season for football. Now, all track and field athletes will be subject to regular-season inspections...
According to the emerging science of chaos theory, many natural systems that appear utterly random -- tumbling waterfalls, roiling weather patterns, clusters of earthquakes -- are really governed by underlying mathematical patterns. Now an experiment reported in Science has shown that understanding chaos could one day save lives...
...leaders for marathon discussions about how to distribute the state's limited resources. They built elaborate computer models to help rank medical procedures by cost effectiveness. They held 47 town meetings to thrash out the rules by which medical priorities would be set, and then followed up with a random telephone survey of 1,000 households to make sure citizens agreed with the resulting proposal. Finally, they submitted for Washington's approval an innovative plan that would have provided virtually every Oregonian with universal -- albeit somewhat restricted -- health-care coverage before the end of the year...