Word: models
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...quite so democratic as the name implies. Says Morningstar mutual-fund analyst Russ Kinnel: "The name is kind of a smoke screen." Ultimately the fund's management team buys just a fraction of the thousands of picks tipsters submit. The choices are based on quantitative analysis, a computer model to screen stocks. If you want a quant fund, Kinnel suggests looking at more established names like Fidelity Disciplined Equity, the Numeric Investors family of funds or veteran manager John Bogle Jr.'s new Bogle Small Growth fund...
...course, no one knows for sure whether Arkin or anyone else will be able to develop a working computer model of the cell. But it's the sort of project that could keep scientists busy for another 100 years...
...past century taking cells apart to figure out what makes them tick. Adam Arkin, 33, a physical chemist who divides his time between the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, wants to put the pieces back together again. His goal is to create a computer model of how the cell works so that someday he'll be able to design his own cells from scratch...
...hope, according to a press release from the Gates Foundation, is that the project in Peru will then be able to be used as a model for other countries...
...first surprise was a red-glowing, state-of-the-art OPTICAL MOUSE that will come standard with all Apple's desktop computers. Apple's old hockey-puck-style mouse was a disaster--difficult to use and not much fun to look at. The new model is ellipsoidal, so it's easier to tell which way it's pointing. Even better, it doesn't need a mouse pad, and there's no mouse ball to get all gunky...