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...idea. Farecast.com uses fearsome computer power to predict the direction of plane fares. That helps travelers figure out the optimum time to buy a ticket. It was founded by Oren Etzioni, who created the Web's first meta-search site (it scans multiple search engines) and first shopping-comparison tool. Farecast uses an algorithm to crunch 100 billion prices in its database, then evaluates 200 attributes that affect plane fares. From those trillions of combinations, it figures out whether you should buy a ticket now or wait for prices to drop...
...data involves thousands of patients, small increases in certain types of problems can be detected more quickly, so the database will serve as a kind of sentinel for changes in the epidemic. “We’re very excited that this will be a very powerful tool in advancing treatment for people with HIV,” he said...
...Endowed chairs are mainly a marketing tool the University uses to get money,” he said...
...directly confirmed his interview with Grey in 2001. His spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyke said in an e-mail that "although that may have been the first time Mr. Grey heard the term, it certainly is not the first time the U.S. government publicly discussed this decades-old tool." Indeed, then-CIA Director William Webster told the Washington Post in 1989 that the Department of Justice had created the term "renditions" after the shootdown of the Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. The process was aimed at capturing those responsible abroad and bringing them back to the United States. Later...
Finally, never underestimate the Internet as a tool for the proactive procrastinator (not the oxymoron you might suppose). For daily “literary” entertainment, try mcsweeneys.net or overheardinnewyork.com. YouTube and apple.com/trailers provide enough video content to get you through the longest Sunday night, and a delightful alternative to ESPN is sportspickle.com. Boredatwidener.com and sexandtheivy.com will give you a quick taste of what your fellow procrastinators are up to; which can be anything from debating the calorie-burning effects of chewing gum to debating the calorie-burning effects of….well, other activities...