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...morphing due to increased police pressure (the smaller bombs used on Oct. 1 may be the result of less funding, for example, or stricter security), one aspect of the picture hasn't changed: authorities still believe that the terrorism linchpins in the region are 48-year-old Malaysian statistician Azahari bin Husin and his former student Nurdin Mohammed Top, 37. They are suspected of playing key roles as planners and bombmakers in the 2002 Bali blasts, the August 2003 bombing of Jakarta's JW Marriott Hotel, the September 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in the capital...
...statistician found that 90 percent of the files available on Grokster were copyrighted...
...carotid to the brain. There is just one problem, bluntly stated last week at an American Heart Association meeting by Dr. Mark Dyken, chief of neurology at Indiana University: "No careful study has ever shown any conclusive benefit." Of more concern, according to a survey conducted by Dyken and Statistician Robert Pokras, the operation carries a 2.8% risk of death and at least as great a risk of actually causing a stroke. "In the light of present knowledge," said Dyken, "there are too many procedures, performed by too many surgeons, in too many places, with too high stroke-and-death...
DIED. Simon Kuznets, 84, Ukrainian-born economist, statistician and professor emeritus at Harvard, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for his development in the 1930s of the first sophisticated system for measuring the gross national product, the now indispensable means for gauging comparative economic activity and income distribution by computing the total value of each nation's goods and services; in Cambridge, Mass...
DIED. JAMES M. ROCHE, 97, former head of General Motors who guided the company through the turbulent 1960s; in Belleair, Fla. After starting his 44-year career at GM as a statistician, he got the top job in 1967 and helped steer the automaker toward better corporate citizenship as Detroit struggled in the aftermath of the 1968 riots. In 1971 he nominated to GM's board the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who became one of the first African Americans to serve on a major corporate board...