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...admission of that sort of nuance may wind up undermining part of the appeal of forecasts: how a single number can quickly jump from an economist's spreadsheet to a politician's stump speech or a businessman's PowerPoint presentation. "Forecasts satisfy a deep psychological need that we live in a somewhat predictable and controllable world," says Philip Tetlock, a professor of organizational behavior at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. "Those are essential stories. People just find the truth" - that the future is unknowable - "too dissonant...
...report that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are now raising $500 million a year from the opium trade. What does that mean in terms of their capabilities and what they are able to do with that sort of money? It's clear that drug money is paying for the Taliban's operational costs within Afghanistan. That means that every time a U.S. soldier is killed in an IED attack or a shootout with militants, drug money helped pay for that bomb or paid the militants who placed it. Opium funding helps pay for salaries, weapons, explosives and food. The Taliban...
...write a lot about your sexual experiences and the women you've been with. Does that make it hard for you to meet women now? Actually, women are often quite drawn to that sort of thing. A lot of women write me very nice notes about the sexual aspect of my writing, so I don't think that's a problem. Once I'm in the relationship with someone, then people don't really like what I write. That's why my next book is going to be called If You Know Me, Please Don't Read This...
...write about an amateur boxing match in which you participated. You had your nose broken and your jaw knocked out of line. Would you ever box again? I would like to box again. It's very thrilling. I'm not the sort to jump out of a plane or skydive, but in boxing, you're really putting yourself on the edge, especially for a safe, middle-class person like myself. I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that...
...Primary care, from the perspective of the Medical School, was sort of a stepchild [in the past], and not much was done to provide students with information about primary care careers or to connect them with role models in primary care," said Susan Edgman-Levitan, executive director at The John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation. "[The cut] comes at a time when there is huge national concern about the role of primary care in the health care system going forward. Most other schools and organizations are doing everything they can to strengthen the primary care base, attracting...