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Critics concede that forecasting has its place. "Whether we like it or not," Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset once wrote, "human life is a constant preoccupation with the future." Indeed, though bad predictions have hurt companies like AMAX, its chairman, Pierre Gousseland, still believes in trying to look ahead. Says he: "Economists are as essential to conducting your business as meteorologists are for anticipating weather patterns. The alternative would be flying blind." But even when the weatherman forecasts sunshine, a cautious person may take along an umbrella. Executives should be no less skeptical when listening to their economists. -By John...
...timing of conception within the menstrual cycle and by the acidity or alkalinity of the female reproductive tract. A douche of vinegar, he contended, would confer an advantage on sperm bearing an X chromosome (for females), while a douche of baking soda would shift the odds toward the Y-bearing sperm (for males). Shettles' theory has now been generally discredited...
Ericsson's theory is based on the fact that sperm carrying the Y chromosome move somewhat faster than sperm carrying the X. To select males, a sample of semen is placed at the top of a glass column containing a solution of albumin, a sticky protein normally present in such bodily fluids as blood and semen. After an hour, more Y-containing sperm than sluggish Xs should have sped to the bottom. The Y sperm are further concentrated by being run through increasingly thicker solutions of albumin. "It's like making them run the Boston Marathon with overshoes...
Amenia, N. Y...
...intellectual equivalent of an alarm clock, that is Krauthammer's brilliant essay on moral distinctions. This alert should be distributed to all politicians, government officials and teachers. Philip J. Brunskill Mayville, N. Y...