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Monthly Archives: March 2008

College Admissions and Data Mining

Ask any senior in high school that is considering college and he will tell you that the college application process is opaque and often entirely arbitrary. Some students get accepted to a school that rejects a seemingly equally qualified student, and the process seems downright unfair. Data mining could provide just the answer to the [...]

Book Review: The Truth about the Drug Companies

In her scathing review of the pharmaceutical industry entitled The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About it, Marcia Angell methodically rebuts industry positions on research, innovation, politics and intellectual property. Dr. Angell worked for The New England Journal of Medicine for 20 years, serving as its editor [...]