Probability, S(13-14), L. What Are the Odds? Chance in Everyday Life. Mike Orkin. WH Freeman, 2000, v + 154 pp, $14.95 (P). [ISBN 0-7167-3560-1] A potpourri of incidents either influenced by chance (lotteries, blackjack, slot machines, as well as weather, quanta, and war) or in which chance creates opportunity (game theory, clinical trials). Many short, concrete examples; concludes with extensive application to NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. LAS
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