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...about four years? In the meantime, the three freshman forwards can concentrate on a little wager. It seems Du, Mandes and Maki have a running competition to see who can scrape out the most points before the end of the year...
...last hurdle for Penn would be a title bout with No. 1 McNeese St. The Cowboys have won their last two games at home against unranked opponents by a paltry seven points. I’d wager that the Quakers could keep the game close as well, and who knows, maybe even pull off the jaw-dropping upset...
...Planetary protection” contains an implicit acknowledgement that scientific knowledge is never final or complete. We have been wrong before in the history of space exploration, and we should not wager our planet’s safety on the assumption that we need not worry about extraterrestrial life accidentally brought back to Earth. All of our ideas about life elsewhere are based on extrapolation from one example—Earth life—and science is not at its best when basing sweeping conclusions on a sample size of one. Although common sense strongly suggests that the threats...
...prices and ticket sales. The theory is simple: when people have something at stake, they act on their deepest convictions, which generates the most accurate information. The market is restricted to a few hundred experts with a modest investment limit. Allowing CIA, State Department and Pentagon authorities to wager their own money on a terrorist strike would quickly aggregate their wisdom and perhaps provide leads. Meanwhile, there's collateral damage. Sources tell TIME that a prototype market for health officials to wager on a SARS outbreak--to help pinpoint hot spots--lost funding in the process. --By Daniel Kadlec
...their bid to clinch further concessions, wager-crazy Hong Kongers now face very high odds. The swiftest way for Tung to ease public fury would be to shuffle his Cabinet, obscuring a handful of lieutenants who have become walking voodoo dolls around town. He's adamantly refused to take that step and is even less likely to retire himself. The loftiest aspiration of the marchers?speeding up democratic reforms to allow a directly elected Chief Executive and legislature by 2007 at the earliest?requires a big, generous and highly uncharacteristic nod from Beijing. In the Chinese-fire-drill events...