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...book “More Mathematical People.”It wasn’t long until Mosteller would captivate the minds of his own students.“My most memorable meeting with Professor Mosteller was my very first meeting with him,” said James W. Vaupel ’67, who was the first student to graduate with an undergraduate Statistics degree from Harvard.During one of Vaupel’s first meetings with Mosteller, the professor kept spinning a coin and recording whether it came up heads or tails, according to Vaupel.When Vaupel finally asked Mosteller...
...body, after all, is just a machine--albeit a wet, cranky, willful one--and, as with all machines, it should be possible to extend the warranty. "There is no evidence we know of that human life expectancy is anywhere close to its ultimate limit," says James Vaupel, a Duke University demographer and the soon-to-be director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, "if there is an ultimate limit...
...predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before they are 80," says Danish researcher James Vaupel. "In those years there will be a lot of health and biomedical progress...
...though, David McNichol won the presidency of the club back for the Machine. He did it, however, with the help of unknowns whom Scott said had been "not entirely welcome." James W. Vaupel '67, who succeeded McNichol, was one of these. Vaupel's own successor, Stephens, labelled a Machine man by the opposing ticket at last year's election, began his Harvard Republican career as an anti-Machine candidate. Traditionally, YR's stayed with the same faction all the way. The chain had been broken...
Wagler, operations director of the Young Republicans Club and James W. Vaupel '67, former president of the organization, said they arranged the attempt in order to start a dialogue between SDS and the YR's, but they added that there was no official connection between their effort and the Club...