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Before the Karmarkar method, linear equations could be solved only in a cumbersome fashion, ironically known as the simplex method, devised by Mathematician George Dantzig in 1947. Problems are conceived of as giant geodesic domes with thousands of sides. Each corner of a facet on the dome represents a possible solution to the equation. Using the simplex method, the computer scours the surface of the dome millions of times to pinpoint the corner with the most likely solution. But the method is slow, and it works only when there are merely a few thousand variables to sort through. Says Karmarkar...
...Teapot Dome scandal of 1923, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty were charged with crimes after leaving office. So were three Nixon Administration officials in the Watergate period: Attorney General John Mitchell, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans...
...million, 60,000-sq.-ft. command center, which was built in California and shipped to Sarajevo for the Winter Olympics, has been brought back home and upgraded. Now even Kublai Khan, or George Lucas, would be overwhelmed by this pleasure dome of electronic wizardry: twelve editing rooms rather than the seven used in Sarajevo, 96 videotape recorders rather than 36, and a wall of 97 TV monitors that will carry simultaneous pictures from nearly every stadium, arena, swimming pool and open field in the area...
...pattern took on a new dimension in January, when Muslim guards scared away intruders from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, site of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque, two of the Islamic world's most hallowed shrines. Explosives were discovered near by. Following a two-month investigation by Shin Bet, Israel's internal security force, three men were arrested. They turned out to belong to a fanatical Jewish group, with headquarters in the Lifta Valley near Jerusalem, that believes the mosques on the Temple Mount must be razed and the Second Temple, which was destroyed...
Because of his terse narrative style. Woodward has dome difficulty conveying what he thinks went wrong. Anecdotes suffice for him, and by and large this is enough. He quoted Belushi telling one of his doctors early on why he couldn't stop using the drugs...