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19 December 2005

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18 December 2005

Featured in the Times!
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http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/17gret.pdf
http://select.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/business/yourmoney/18gret.html
The Boss Actually Said This: Pay Me Less
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Published: December 18, 2005

BLIZZARDS swept through Wall Street last week - bonus blizzards, that is. Henry M. Paulson Jr., chief executive of Goldman Sachs, received $37 million in shares and options. Richard S. Fuld Jr. of Lehman Brothers got $15 million in...

Start With a Stock Index. Now Try to Turbocharge It. - New York Times

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Start With a Stock Index. Now Try to Turbocharge It.
By JACK EGAN
Published: December 18, 2005

A NEW kind of designer index fund has arrived on the scene. Instead of trying merely to match the performance of the stock market, as measured by some broad index like the Standard & Poor's 500, these new funds are aiming to outperform it....

http://freakonomics.com [clip-h]ooo

Here's column associated with the book... It show's interesting negative correlation.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11wwln_freak.html
Freakonomics
The Economy of Desire

By STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT
Published: December 11, 2005
Analyzing a Sex Survey
What is a price?

Unless you're an economist, you probably think of a price as simply the amount you pay for a given thing - the number of dollars you surrender for, let's say, Sunday brunch at your favorite neighborhood restaurant. But to an economist, price is a much broader concept. The 20 minutes you spend waiting for a table is part of the price. So, too, is any nutritional downside of the meal itself: a cheeseburger, as the economist Kevin Murphy has calculated, costs $2.50 more than a salad in long-term health implications. There are moral and social costs to tally as well - for instance, the look of scorn delivered by your vegan dining partner as you order the burger. While the restaurant's menu may list the price of the cheeseburger at $7.95, that is clearly just the beginning.....

Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts - New York Times

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December 16, 2005
Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts
By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.

Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible 'dirty numbers' linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said. ....

16 December 2005

SlidesFall04 (YCMI / Lessons)

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People Search - Background Checks - Public Records - Find People

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revealing link

11 December 2005

Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory

John Q lab.
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10 December 2005

The Day the Sea Came - Free Preview - The New York Times

The Day the Sea Came - Free Preview - The New York Times: "FREE PREVIEW Sign In to E-Mail This
The Day the Sea Came
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November 27, 2005, Sunday
By BARRY BEARAK (NYT); Magazine
Late Edition - Final, Section 6, Page 47, Column 1, 18641 words

DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 18641 WORDS -For the earth, it was just a twinge. Last Dec. 26, at 7:59 a.m., one part of the planet's undersea crust made an abrupt shift beneath another along a 750-mile seam near the island of Sumatra. The tectonic plates had been grating against each other for millenniums, and now..."

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW:11-27-05: IDEA LAB; Revolting High Rises - Free Preview - The New York Times

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW:11-27-05: IDEA LAB; Revolting High Rises - Free Preview - The New York Times: "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW:11-27-05: IDEA LAB; Revolting High Rises
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November 27, 2005, Sunday
By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL (NYT); Magazine
Late Edition - Final, Section 6, Page 28, Column 3, 1076 words

DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 1076 WORDS -There is a somewhat comic lining around the cloud of France's suburban riots. Suddenly the word banlieue has been embraced by people not known for peppering their conversation with French words -- callers to right-wing talk shows, for instance. Obviously, they want to stress how different those suburbs (burning..."

Coach Leach Goes Deep, Very Deep - New York Times

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Coach Leach Goes Deep, Very Deep
By MICHAEL LEWIS
Published: December 4, 2005

7:02 . . . 7:01 . . . 7:00 . . .

It was still ordinary time. The seconds ticked off the digital clock on the locker-room wall. A smell: the acrid odor of vomit. They were still ordinary college football players, and a few of them had lost their pregame meals to a war of nerves. Side by side at their lockers the players sat, silently, almost penitently, stomachs churning, waiting for their coach to show up and to make the place a lot less ordinary.....

06 December 2005

Science Projects in Genetic Data and Physics Win Scholarships - New York Times

Science Projects in Genetic Data and Physics Win Scholarships - New York Times: "Science Projects in Genetic Data and Physics Win Scholarships

By SUSAN SAULNY
Published: December 6, 2005

As summer interns working at a laboratory in Phoenix, Anne Lee and Albert Shieh, two high school students, came across a problem reading computerized information on the human genome"....

05 December 2005

Bioinformatics: Detection of DNA copy number alterations using penalized least squares regression [clip]

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T. Huang, B. Wu, P. Lizardi, H. Zhao (2005)
Detection of DNA copy number alterations using penalized least squares regression
Bioinformatics (in press)
http://bioinformatics.med.yale.edu/PDF/29_THuang2005.pdf

"I thought if I married a hub, I'd get an edge."

A quote at ORFeome 2005

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NYTimes: Wheels and Deals in Silicon Valley [clip-h]

Appears that all that cycling up Page Mill in the early '90s was the beginning of a building trend....

Wheels and Deals in Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/fashion/sundaystyles/04SILICON.html

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By ALEX WILLIAMS

Published: December 4, 2005

NY Times

RANDY KOMISAR, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, used to consider his cycling habits extreme even by the standards of the fanatically fit Bay Area. An energetic 51, Mr. Komisar says he rides 70 miles a day on the weekends and more than 10,000 miles a year on his custom-built titanium Serotta road bike. In Silicon Valley even sweat is quantifiable, so each week he is careful to log at least 10,000 vertical feet, climbing the golden hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains....

04 December 2005

NYTimes - Rewriting History: Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar [clip-h]

thought this was interesting in relation to traceability of internet info. and also defamatory websites...

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NYTimes - Rewriting History: Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/weekinreview/04seelye.html

FALSE WITNESS How true are "facts" online?

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Published: December 4, 2005

ACCORDING to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, John Seigenthaler Sr. is 78 years old and the former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. But is that information, or anything else in Mr. Seigenthaler's biography, true?

The question arises because Mr. Seigenthaler recently read about himself on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that he "was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby."....

The Gamer as Artiste - New York Times

Pixel Canvas
The Gamer as Artiste
By JOHN LELAND
Published: December 4, 2005

LAST week, I spent several days living - and dying - inside the new Xbox 360 console, with four popular games pegged as particularly cinematic. I entered as a curious novice, less concerned with breaking the games than with exploring the worlds they opened, and the worlds you die in.....
I died as a princess in a green miniskirt, as a space warrior, a World War II soldier named Vasili and a humorless F.B.I. agent tracking a sadistic killer. My deaths, rendered in state-of-the-art detail, were not illustrious or mourned.

03 December 2005

Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales - New York Times