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Simplexity: Where nothing is left to chance

August 5, 2008 By JEFFREY KLUGER Jeffrey Kluger is science editor of Time magazine and author of "Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)". This is excerpted from the Los Angeles Times

Whoever made the sandwich Gavrilo Princip ate on June 28, 1914, has a lot to answer for. Princip had more on his mind than his lunch that day, of course. The young Bosnian was thinking about assassinating Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who had arrived in Sarajevo for a state visit.

Princip missed his first chance to shoot at the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and slunk off to have...

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