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Rage has long shadowed American health care. It’s rarely produced big change.

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Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia ("Black Hawk Down"), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie ("Collateral Damage"), and a future Oscar winner about a brilliant mathematician struggling with schizophrenia ("A Beautiful Mind").

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How dancing honey bees could help us save pollinators

Frontiers

In 2002, I was an unhappy graduate student in neurobiology without the vocabulary to understand why. That was when I stumbled across a paper by Ben-Shahar et al (2002) describing the effect of gene expression on the age-related transition of worker honey bees from nurses to foragers. What inspired you to become a researcher?

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Here’s How Data Analytics In Sports Is Changing The Game

Smart Data Collective

Oakland Athletics become famous in the 2002 season for a 20-game winning streak. Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team used sabermetrics to help recruit players for the team, despite having a shoestring budget.

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Defanging HIPAA: How Your De-identified Data Was Re-identified For Profit.

The Health Care Blog

But its commercial worth quickly became evident resulting in a sale to GE Health in 2002, becoming their “must-have” MQIC database. The doctors were assured that the data housed in their proprietary medical record system was de-identified and intended for altruistic purposes.

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Predictive Analytics Improves Trading Decisions as Euro Rebounds

Smart Data Collective

Since December 2002, the single currency has fallen to its lowest level versus the US dollar since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic in July because of energy worries, supply constraints, and rate rises from the European Central Bank (ECB).

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Why is Covid-19 more severe in some patients? Using AI, we found a likely answer

Frontiers

Dr Emmanuelle Logette studied molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of Burgundy in France and, in 2002, received her PhD, for her work on the transcriptional regulation of caspase-2, a not very well known member of the caspase family of enzymes involved in apoptosis.

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Several floating ice shelves – the massive slabs of ice that push back grounded ice from flowing into the ocean – have catastrophically broken up in a matter of days because of such melting.

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