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1. November 23, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: not Fortune tellers; Foursquare, two million; Big Ten

   The magazine's picks for future Apple and Microsoft CEOs go awry immediately

   By Ryan Chittum

   Fortune peered into its crystal ball for the October 29 issue and came up with four "best bets" on who's in line to replace four tech CEOs, presumably years down the road (although it's a wonder how Steve Ballmer continues to hang on at Microsoft). The mag's top picks: iPhone chief Scott Forstall at Apple and Windows honcho Steven Sinofsky...

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2. October 9, 2012 06:50 AM

   Forward-looking

   Ways of telling the future

   By Merrill Perlman

   We have weather “forecasts,” budget “projections,” attempts at earthquake “predictions.” Most dictionaries say those are all synonyms for one another. So why doesn’t the nightly weather report call them “predictions” or “projections”? Because the weather people know just how fickle Mother Nature is. A “prediction,” Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary says, is “an inference regarding a future event based on probability theory.”...

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