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  <title><![CDATA[Finding a Method to the N.C.A.A. Madness]]></title>
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</p><p><em>New York Times</em> - March 16, 2010<br />The affliction is common at this time of year, perhaps even epidemic. It is short-lived, by necessity, but can seriously sap productivity, energy, the ability to focus on anything but the empty bracket staring back at you on the computer screen...  For the math-inclined, there is the system developed by three Georgia Tech professors, called LRMC.  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/sports/17leading.html">Read more&gt;&gt;</a></p>]]></body>
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      <value><![CDATA[<strong>Barbara Christopher</strong><br />Industrial and Systems Engineering<br /><a href="http://www.gatech.edu/contact/index.html?id=bt3">Contact Barbara Christopher</a><br /><strong>404.385.3102</strong>]]></value>
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