But, as the scientist Louis Pasteur noted, "Chance favors...the prepared mind," and I would add the passionate and curious one, too.
The disease, Mr. Giuliani said, was caught in its earliest stages, when, medical professionals noted, chances for a cure are excellent.
For the performers it's steady work and, as several of their program biographies note, a chance to become "part of theatrical history".
The screening gave Ms. Johansson, pictured, and her best friend, JESSICA BALDASSARE ("five months older," Ms. Baldassare was quick to note), a chance to put on their black, bare-shouldered Betsey Johnson dresses.
A Weibull psychometric function was fit to the collective staircase data to produce a 50% contrast energy threshold (Note: the chance performance for a 1-of-8 identification task is ∼ 13%).
One should also note that chance alone can explain one positive P value at the 5% confidence level when more than 20 statistical comparisons are performed.
Since there was no logical explanation for this, Mathematica noted the chance of a statistical fluke.
Meanwhile a senior European official has struck an upbeat note, saying chances of a deal are more than 50%.
Janette Sadik-Khan, the city's transportation commissioner, carefully noted the chance that some tinkering might result from that experience.
As noted, that chance arrives Jan . 18at the Philharmonic Symphony's 8 30 P.M. concert in the Mount Vernon High School auditorium.
