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...teams have their own versions of software that analyzes thousands of variables--from weather and road conditions to fuel levels and competitors' probable actions--and how they may interact to affect a car's performance, before and during a race. The program spits out possible options and assesses the chances of success. Now that racetrack technology is coming to the equally fast-paced world of business...
...Malaysian refugee camp before making it to Edmonton, Alberta in 1979. It was in Canada that Lu met his wife, Phuong. Like Lu, Phuong was ethnically Chinese but an immigrant from Saigon. In fact, both had initially wished to wind up in Australia—for the weather, of course—and had picked Canada, with its relatively lenient policy for sponsoring families, as their second choice. The pair was married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise won five Stanley Cups in seven years, and Lu was sold...
...Nature obliged: Sunday dawned wet, cool and clean in Baghdad after overnight showers rinsed the city of several layers of desert sand. Late in the morning, Ahmed Hussein, a government-employed street sweeper, looked up into the overcast and still-rumbling skies and nodded approvingly. "This is the right weather for a day like this," he said. "The rain is God's blessing upon the verdict...
...underrated 2005 film, “The Weather Man,” Michael Caine provides invaluable advice to his son, Nicholas Cage, who is suffering from an existential crisis. In his characteristic British accent, Caine says: “Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. ‘Easy’ doesn’t enter into grown-up life.” At this stage, no wiser words could be applied to the Harvard College Curricular Review.For the last...
...graduate of Harvard Law School, reminds us of her own pedigree. The description is often cutely evocative—“I missed the rutted brick streets of Harvard Square, where my heels stuck between the stones and my boots slid out from under me in slushy weather.” Or sometimes playfully displays a sense of self-reflexive Harvardian irony—“Next to me, I could hear orange blazer man drawling, ‘An ironic reconstruction of an iconic representation?...