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...says Rossmo, a former Vancouver police official. After studying about 4,000 criminals, Rossmo is convinced that most operate a predictable distance from where they live and work. They constantly juggle the competing urges to attack in a convenient and familiar locale and to go unrecognized. That means they tend to pick hunting grounds midway between the places they know best. When a criminals' stats are plugged into an algorithm Rossmo has developed using his theory, it creates a rainbow-hued map, with the crime scenes in lime and yellow zones, the perpetrator's likely home in bright...
...When HBS students don’t get their first or second choice job, they feel a need to point a finger at someone,” said Robinson. “They tend to associate their disappointment with the school...
...sure, white-collar workers out of a job often suffer less, financially speaking, than do those with less income and training. Educated workers tend to be married to others like themselves, who often also hold jobs that come with health insurance. Many have savings, equity in a home or well-off parents. Their experience and contacts help them in their search for another high-paying job. And they can often afford to get more education for a new career. "If all else fails," says David Wyss, chief economist with Standard & Poor's, "there's always law school...
When they began finding polar bears with both male and female sex organs, scientists had a suspicion about what might be causing the deformities. The industrial chemicals known as PCBs, which have polluted land and water all over the world, tend to become concentrated in animals' fatty tissues. Seals, which are the bears' main source of food, are essentially blobs of blubber with flippers attached. And because PCBs are thought to mimic estrogen, some experts fear that even low-level exposure could wreak havoc with a bear's reproductive system...
SHEARER: This group of people 55 to 64 tend to have a lot of health conditions, but they don't have a lot of options. There will have to be a public-policy response to make sure they have some options...