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...DIED. JAMES M. ROCHE, 97, a 44-year veteran of General Motors Corp. who rose from statistician to chairman and ceo; in Belleair, Florida. Roche was credited with expanding equal opportunity at the company, including bringing in GM's first African American board member, but he was also forced to issue a public apology in 1966 for the company's efforts to discredit consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose book Unsafe at Any Speed questioned the safety of GM's Corvair...
...author is a genial man named Richard J. Light, the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education. He is a cheerleader masquerading as a statistician, and the tone of his book began to convince me that maybe all was not lost. I could still Make the Most of something. But of what? And what does that even mean? According to Light it’s somewhere between getting your money’s worth out of the academic experience and being personally happy. In his surveys he asks people to rate both academic and personal...
...Palm Beach Princess Pulitzer’s tale to his short list of princess story authorship (his other subjects include Diana and Jackie). Mulvaney, who referred to Pulitzer in a recent interview as “a very chic mother earth,” is also quite the statistician: “In Palm Beach,” he estimates, “four out of five people are wearing Lilly...
...just might be the Martin Luther of the environmental movement. A statistician from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, Bjorn Lomborg examined the state of the world, using reputable sources and long series of data in his book The Skeptical Environmentalist, and found a surprising thing: by most measures the planet is getting healthier--less pollution, more forests, more food per head. He exposed the often misleading and selective use of scientific evidence by environmental pressure groups, urged us to be optimistic rather than despairing about environmental problems, and set out what should be the true priorities of environmental action...
...President is not a statistician." SCOTT MCCLELLAN, White House press secretary, after the Bush Administration backed away from its earlier forecast that the U.S. economy would gain 2.6 million jobs this year...