Tim Krueger
 
            The cover article of Sunday’s New York Times Magazine explores the mechanics of a new approach to gang conflict on Chicago’s south side, in doing so weighing the logic behind regarding violence as a sort of virus.  Alex Kotlowitz explains how Gary Slutkin, the architect of CeaseFire in Chicago, plots out a strategy […]

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Much to the chagrin of many New Yorkers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a widespread traffic proposal that would charge people $8 to enter Manhattan below 86th Street. While many praised Bloomberg for his plan—estimated to bring New York City $500M—most said that the toll would encumber New York City businesses. For months, the mayor has […]

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One of my father’s favorite jokes is “What is the state bird of Florida? The construction crane!” For a time, I believed that the joke was more of a fact than a mere quip. Driving up A1A, a major thoroughfare that runs parallel to South Florida’s beaches, revealed hundreds of new condominium development project each […]

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Upon completion of this four-course meal they call college, Cornell University will stick me with a bill totaling $200,000. The price of college education—especially at private institutions—has been the subject of much media attention as of late. Institutions such as Harvard, Princeton, and Yale have instituted bold programs providing free education for students who cannot […]

Hedge funds are small aggressively run funds that use advanced strategies and advanced derivatives to produce high returns in either absolute marks or market bench marks. The $2 trillion hedge fund market brings around questions about their power, performance, and economic impact. Compared to the highly regulated mutual funds, […]

What first struck me about this article (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/health/research/06dise.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin) from today’s New York Times was the similarity of the diagram of diseases organized by the genes that cause them to say any other network diagram we have studied in class. While the bulk of the article deals with the changing paradigm of how disease are thought […]

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The Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person he or she knows and two steps away from each person that their first person knows, then everyone is an average of six steps away from each person on Earth. This phenomena was pioneered by […]

Many students look to the Greek system at their schools in order to meet such desires because fraternities foster brotherhood, friendship, and help to meet new people and establish relationships. However, many fraternities are recognized or distinguished from others by a particular characteristic of its members. Prime examples are divisions by race, religion, ethnicity, sports, […]

            A number of issues in the modern world have the capacity to severely change society, or even civilization as a whole. The threat of terrorism and nuclear warfare, severe overpopulation, and recent climate change are all extremely fragile subjects that modern man will be required to confront sooner than later in order to continue […]

I’m no expert, but I know that when it comes to choosing a type of vehicle to drive, a lot of different factors are considered.  Safety and fuel efficiency are probably two of the largest deciding factors. 
 
Is it more economical to drive a gas-guzzling vehicle or purchase a brand new fuel-efficient car?  According to […]