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...certainly never affect any final product.Despite concerns about quality control, open-contribution projects such as arXiv, Apache, Linux, and Wikipedia have all competed well against similar proprietary initiatives for this reason: Established or presumed credibility is the main metric by which members of open cooperatives decide how much weight to attach to any contribution. Perelman’s bold claim of having proved Poincaré was taken seriously at its outset only because Perelman was already an established mathematician. Such attention would not be accorded to a novice, whose work would be met with skepticism. This hierarchy is a huge...
...Please Feed the Models Columnist Belinda Luscombe addressed the decision of the organizers of the Madrid fashion shows to bar from the runways any model who falls below a certain weight [Oct. 2]. ?Viva España! ?Viva Madrid! I have never met a man or woman who thinks those gaunt and pathetically unappealing models, who look like something from the worst of the World War II pow camps, do anything for clothes, fashion or themselves. It's time we objected to the twisted concepts of the fashion-industry nitwits. Louis C. Kleber Las Vegas Madrid's ban on models...
...military fights valiantly and enjoys the backing of the entire nation. It is just the government that is not holding up its end of the bargain, and those of us interested in politics are sick of the rest of society having to drag the public sector along as dead weight. This, in part, explains the oft-noted lack of radicalism among most of the IOP’s students. Our times are not Kennedy’s times—for the most part, we don’t need a government that fosters a civil rights revolution, creates Medicare...
...this Election Day. At Thursday's debate, Pryce described herself time and again as a "thoughtful moderate," which she said makes her an "endangered species." She stressed the number of times she has disagreed with her President and her party leadership, but she acknowledged that she is carrying the weight of their unpopularity. "We heard a lot of names tonight. Most of them aren't on the ballot," Pryce said. This could be the year when the most shopworn electoral cliche could be turned upside down. In one Ohio district at least, it may turn out that no politics...
...green or clean." One such holding is Fuel Tech, which supplies pollution control and cleaning equipment to those nasty coal-fired power plants. Robinson also maintains stakes in the healthy-living sector, owning companies like Whole Foods Market and even the controversial HerbaLife, a maker of nutrition and weight-loss products. He's not averse to financial, biotech or telecom stocks either, stretching the notion of eco-friendly. Last year he made a killing off a telecom stock, Redback. "They're helping networks to move data faster, reducing the use of paper," he says. By that measure, though, almost...