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...platform focused on more widespread and affordable Internet access. Genachowski was chief council to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt during the Clinton administration. He has since worked as a senior executive at IAC/Interactive Corporation. Genachowski and Obama were both in University Professor Laurence H. Tribe’s constitutional law section at the Law School. The two were also research assistants for Tribe ’62, who says he has retained a close relationship with them both. “He was very impressive, and did extremely well,” Tribe said. “As did his classmate...
...common strategy for beginning to understand big numbers is to devise visual representations. One time, sitting at a baseball game in Philadelphia, Paulos started counting seats along the first-base line. Multiplying the number of seats in a row by the number of rows, Paulos came up with a section of the stadium that he figured contained about 10,000 seats - an image he can now think back to whenever a person starts talking about tens of thousands of a particular thing. When numbers get too large, though, that method breaks down. A stack of one trillion $1 bills would...
...world. The first round of flights began Friday and is scheduled to be finished by the end of January. “What we will get out of this is a chemical picture of the atmosphere like you were slicing an orange and get[ting] a cross section of the orange,” said Wofsy, speaking from a Federal Aviation Association hanger in Anchorage, Alaska. “If you take a slice of the middle, you see all kinds of wonderful structures that tell you how it is put together and how it functions.” During...
...remain children long into their careers. Many players turn pro in their mid-teens. In the player's lounge at the Paris Masters, top pros in their late teens or early twenties lay around on faux-zebra-skin couches while their managers hustled the phones. The most popular section of the players' restaurant was a wall filled with jars of candy and licorice, and back at the hotel players spent a good portion of their time playing video games together. Even in this setting, there has always been something particularly childlike about Nadal's public persona, from his obsessive prematch...
...traced to women's confusion over the official guidelines: While ACOG recommends that 39 weeks of gestation is ideal for both vaginal and Cesarean deliveries, 37 weeks is technically considered full term. So, many women question why they have to wait an additional two weeks to schedule a c-section if their baby is at term...