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| Introduction | |
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| Lani "Quota Queen" Guinier: Voting, Power, and Mathematics | |
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| Bosnia: Is It Vietnam or World War II?: Psychological Availability and Anchoring Effects | |
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| Recession Forecast If Steps Not Taken: Unpredictability, Chaos, and Pooh-Poohing the Pooh-Bahs | |
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| Afta Nafta, Lafta; Free Traders Exult: Headlines and the Inverted Pyramid | |
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| Pakistan's Bhutto Gambles in Trade Negotiations: On Dice and Bluffing | |
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| Clinton, Dole in Sparring Roles: Who's News and Grammar Checkers | |
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| Iraqi Death Toll Unknown: Benchmark Figures in War, Crisis, and the Economy | |
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| D'Amato Agrees Hillary Most Honest Person Clinton Knows: Ambiguity and Nonstandard Models | |
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| Fraud Alleged in Pennsylvania Senate Race: Political and Mathematical Regression | |
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| Cult Members Accuse Government of Plot: Newspapers, Coincidences, and Conspiracy Theories | |
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| Company Charged with Ethnic Bias in Hiring: Test Disparities Need Not Imply Racism | |
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| SAT Top Quartile Score Declines: Correlation, Prediction, and Improvement | |
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| Guns Will Soon Kill More Than Cars: Comparability and Intensity | |
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| Abortion Activists Bomb Clinic: Prohibitions and Arithmetical Arguments | |
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| DNA Fingers Murderer: Life, Death, and Conditional Probability | |
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| Darts Trounce the Pros: Luck and the Market | |
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| Cellular Phones Tied to Brain Cancer: Multiplication, Health, and Business | |
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| GM Trucks Explode on Side Collision: From Pity to Policy | |
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| The $32 Billion Pepsi Challenge: Advertising and Numerical Craftiness | |
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| Brief Fads Dominate Toy Industry: S-Curves and Novelty | |
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| Area Residents Respond to Story: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition | |
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| Researchers Look to Local News for Trends: The Present, the Future, and Ponzi Schemes | |
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| A Cyberpunk Woody Allen: How to Write a Profile of the Fledgling Celebrity | |
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| Tsongkerclintkinbro Wins: Everybody's Got an Angle | |
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| Florida Dentist Accused of Intentionally Spreading AIDS: Rumors, Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, and National Obsessions | |
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| Interlude: Selves, Heroes, and Dissociation | |
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| Candidates Contradict Each Other's Denials: Self-Reference, Intentions, and the News | |
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| Special Investigator Says Full Story Not Told: Compressibility and the Complexity Horizon | |
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| Newspaper Circulation Down: Factoids on Tabloids | |
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| Computers, Faxes, Copiers Still Rare in Russia: Information and the Commissars | |
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| Ranking Health Risks: Experts and Laymen Differ: The Dyscalculia Syndrome | |
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| Asbestos Removal Closes NYC Schools: Contaminated Mountains Out of Mole Spills | |
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| Super Collider a Waste of Money: Science Journalism and Advocacy | |
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| Harvard Psychiatrist Believes Patients Abducted by Aliens: Mathematically Creating One's Own Pseudoscience | |
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| FDA Caught Between Opposing Protesters: Statistical Tests and Confidence Intervals | |
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| Senators Eye Hawaii Health Care Plan: Scaling Up Is So Very Hard to Do | |
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| Breakthrough Forecast by End of Decade: You Can't Know More Than You Know | |
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| Rodent Population Patterns Difficult to Fathom: Ecology, Chaos, and the News | |
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| More Dismal Math Scores for U.S. Students: X, Y, and U | |
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| 761 Calories, 428 Mgs. Sodium, 22.6 Grams of Fat per Serving: Meaningless Precision | |
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| Top Designs for the Busy Working Woman: Fashion, Unpredictability, and Toast | |
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| Agassi Wins Again: Scoring and Amplifying Differences | |
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| New Survey Reveals Changing Attitudes: Societal Gas Laws | |
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| Near-Perfect Game for Roger Clemens: How Many Runs in the Long Run | |
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| Bucks County and Environs: A Note on Maps and Graphic Games | |
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| Ask About Your Mother-in-Law's Lladro: Explanation, Advice, and Physics | |
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| Garden Club Gala: Incidence Matrices on the Society Pages | |
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| Ten Reasons We Hate Our Bosses: Lists and Linearity | |
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| Stallone on Worst-Dressed List: Traits and Rates | |
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| New Biography Fills Much-Needed Gap: Books and News | |
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| Which Way Mecca?: Religion in the Paper | |
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| R. L. Vickler, 85, Aide to Truman: The Length of Obituaries | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |