Word: randoms
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...thinking about Katrina, most�Americans consider the disaster to have been a random event, a force of nature that couldn't be controlled or predicted. I know I did. But two years after Katrina drowned New Orleans, I'm persuaded that what happened in the Big Easy was less an act of nature than a man-made disaster. Katrina was not the Big One that the city had long feared; it was a Category 3 storm that mostly missed the city. But through a mixture of shoddy engineering, poor planning and selfish politics, a survivable hurricane was turned into...
...agreed. In a question-answer session that followed, a self-described "Oprah fan" rose to attack Frey, claiming he had lied, embellished and fooled those who believed in the truth of his book - including Oprah, who told her audience she had been duped and betrayed. (A judge recently ordered Random House, Talese's publishing house, to refund $2.35 million to readers.) The question prompted Talese to take the microphone. She pointedly turned toward the C-SPAN crew that was filming the event and launched into a diatribe against Oprah that was even stronger than her afternoon comments. The mood...
Smith?s department has also started performing random searches in an effort to combat other labor problems, not just wage violations. "In the past, if there were violations we didn't have jurisdiction over, we would just ignore them," she says. Now, Smith instructs inspectors to alert relevant agencies. Worker advocates argue that broader enforcement of existing regulations nationwide could help improve conditions for more than 2.5 million supermarket workers...
After looking at U.S. census data to find areas where Latino populations tended to congregate, they used a “random national probability sample” to begin screening people, eventually finding just over 2,500 subjects for the study out of approximately 20,000 initial candidates...
...spotted a long string of tables along the Meuse River, and walked over to find about a kilometer of vendors (yes, I now think in the metric system) selling truly random and useless things to very excited crowds. Rusty skis from the 1980s sat alongside massive teddy bears, buckets of Dora the Explorer pins, countless musty books (my favorite: the biography of Jacques Chirac published in 1982), and a box full of ancient-looking, browned cartes postales...