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For the past six-and-a-half years I have frequently occupied space on these pages sounding off on everything from nepotism in Bronx politics to politically induced fear of eating French fries or Frosted Flakes. Most often I have written about our ...
2008-09-28 07:35:00
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Warren Buffett is a bundle of paradoxes. He's a tightwad whose personal fortune exceeded $US60 billion ($72 billion) last year. A Wall Street scourge whose company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., just invested $US5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in a ...
2008-09-28 09:58:00
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The geographer Professor Tony Chandler was known for his important work on the urban climate of greater London. His book The Climate of London remains without peer as a comprehensive account of a city’s climate, and contains original research and ...
2008-09-28 06:23:00
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KHANAQIN, Iraq: For Iraqi Kurdish mathematics teacher Mohammed Aziz, two wrongs can make a right. After decades of forced exile by the Baath party of Saddam Hussein, he is back with a vengeance.
2008-09-28 07:35:48
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The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a cooperative computing project, helps find a prime that has nearly 13 million digits. LARGEST KNOWN PRIME NUMBER. Printing out all 13 million digits in 12-point type would create a number 30 miles long. But ...
2008-09-28 04:14:00
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In balance, she's probably about 15 times more dangerous than McCain, who seems to be a sort of Alzheimer’s God of War, but Palin is like a creature from the other side of the universe sent to the Earth to destroy our (one and only) planet. Many of ...
2008-09-28 04:36:00
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THOMASVILLE — Area schools are calculating the implementations and results of state-mandated math curriculum changes. Georgia Performance Standards — GPS — for mathematics were adopted in 2005 by the Georgia Board of Education to replace ...
2008-09-28 01:51:00
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This may seem heresy amid impending global crisis, but it is hard to know what should make us more scared: financial nuclear winter or botched rescues put together too quickly by governments. In Britain, another bank is being nationalised, while in ...
2008-09-28 04:14:00
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What a relief. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) may have dreamed up one of the most famous detectives ever—the arch, chilly, erudite Sherlock Holmes—but Doyle was just a regular fellow, too, in lots of ways: bad at math and humble about his ...
2008-09-28 11:49:00
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BIRMINGHAM, Britain, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- London Mayor Boris Johnson pledged here on Sunday at the annual Conservative Party Conference a safer, cleaner, greener and fairer capital city in the run up to the 2012 Olympics. A total of 27 teenagers have ...
2008-09-28 02:56:00
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Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett is a bundle of paradoxes. He's a tightwad whose personal fortune exceeded $60 billion last year. A Wall Street scourge whose company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., just invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc ...
2008-09-28 05:26:00
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Computer scientists are hoping to claim a $100,000 prize after discovering the largest known prime number. At 12,978,189 digits long, it would take the best part of two and a half months to write out by hand. Prime numbers, which can only be divided ...
2008-09-28 05:12:00
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As a car accelerates up and down a hill then slows to follow a hairpin turn, the airflow around it cannot keep up and detaches from the vehicle. This aerodynamic separation creates additional drag that slows the car and forces the engine to work ...
2008-09-28 08:36:00
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KHANAQIN, Iraq (AFP) -- For Iraqi Kurdish mathematics teacher Mohammed Aziz, two wrongs can make a right. After decades of forced exile by the Baath party of Saddam Hussein, he is back with a vengeance. Aziz was just four years old in 1975 when his ...
2008-09-28 11:06:00
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San Marcos Baptist Academy senior David Abugaber was announced this month as one of 16,000 semifinalists in the 54th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. David is from San Marcos and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jorge Abugaber. He and the other ...
2008-09-28 07:10:00
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