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...President is not a statistician." Scott McClellan, White House press secretary, after the George W. Bush Administration backed away from an earlier forecast that the economy would gain 2.6 million jobs this year...
...Chicago Cubs, another cursed team, had no such solace after failing to end a 95-year dry spell by losing to the Florida Marlins. Are such curses for real? TIME asked Bill James, a baseball statistician who went to work for the Red Sox this year. In all the years of the Sox curse, he noted, "there have probably been 60 when the Yankees had a better team than the Red Sox did. In the other 25, we have had more than our share of bad luck. Does the run of bad luck exceed normal boundaries? The realistic answer...
...income families--has increased 17% in just the past three years, to more than 700 million. At this income level, Indian families can purchase motorbikes, televisions and refrigerators. The organization expects the number to rise an additional 24% by 2007. "Income is growing like anything," says R.K. Shukla, a statistician at the National Council. "The future is very rosy in India...
...income families?has increased 17% in just the past three years, to more than 700 million. At this income level, Indian families can purchase motorbikes, televisions and refrigerators. The organization expects the number to rise an additional 24% by 2007. "Income is growing like anything," says R.K. Shukla, a statistician at the National Council. "The future is very rosy in India...
...first left his homeland in 1986, he did so out of a sense of patriotic duty. The prevailing wisdom of the decade after the Cultural Revolution held that science, not politics, was the key to China's future. "Jianli decided to study math at Berkeley," says Fu, now a statistician at Harvard Medical School, "because he wanted to serve his country." But when the student democracy protesters began to flood Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989, Yang forsook his equations for late nights watching the TV news. And after Deng Xiaoping declared martial law several weeks later, Yang voluntarily...