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...James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, Crick was heard to remark that they had "found the secret of life." With all due respect for DNA, I would like to nominate another candidate for secret of life: non-zero-sumness. An ugly word, I know, but remember: deoxyribonucleic acid didn't get where it is today on the basis of its looks...
Alas, unlike Francis Crick, I can't claim to have discovered the secret I'm touting. It was discovered half a century ago by the founders of game theory, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. They made a distinction between zero-sum games and non-zero-sum games. In zero-sum games, the fortunes of the players are inversely related. In tennis, in chess, in boxing, one contestant's gain is the other's loss. In non-zero-sum games, one player's gain needn't be bad news for the other...
Approximately 100 students braved air temperatures close to zero and a wind chill estimated at around 30 to 40 degrees below to strut their stuff through the Yard. Several hundred more students and staff crowded the Yard to catch a peek of the gutsy exhibitionists...
...things currently stand, in addition to the frivolous expense of his ranting, Jackson is probably the only national leader on record who objects to a "zero-tolerance" policy against school violence. Which begs the question: Why is Jackson still considered a national leader at all? In this, the wake of his latest misguided debacle, we again find ourselves fruitlessly awaiting the condemnation of his peers...
...government and people who work in the Tooele facility over how safe it is," says TIME Washington correspondent Mark Thompson. "And it's plain to everyone that although the amounts of sarin [a nerve gas] and other chemicals disgorged into the air are very low, they're not zero." The Army responded to Harris's claims with a promise of a complete investigation and a statement insisting they will "continue to provide maximum protection to human health and to the environment." Part of the problem, says Thompson, is that whatever the true situation at the plant, the military has done...