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...Although the political turmoil may be over, Zimbabwe faces a cholera epidemic, mass hunger and hyperinflation. The central bank has said it will permit the use of foreign currency and announced on Feb. 2 that it would chop 12 zeros off new notes, making an old trillion-dollar bill equal to one new Zimbabwean dollar...
...Livio uses Pythagoras, Plato, and Archimedes to demonstrate that there is an intimate relationship between the most basic arithmetic and much more complicated and inaccessible abstract logic. Revelations abound, from the logical basis for counting, to the foundation of prime numbers, and the Pythagorean Theorem. But there are an equal number of instances where Livio’s explanations fall short, such as when he discusses knots or how gravity operates in the solar system. In these cases, Livio loses himself in the history of the discoveries and overwhelms the reader with superfluous information and terminology...
...remains to be seen how effectively the fourth-year coach will allocate his time, as the staff maintains a commitment to give all sports equal attention...
...Ledbetter bill, while well intentioned on its surface, is really a boon for trial lawyers, which dramatically broadens their ability to file lawsuits, regardless of how frivolous or whether their clients even personally experienced discrimination." -Explaining his vote against the Fair Pay Act designed to ensure equal compensation for both sexes. Nashua Telegraph...
President Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin want to start their relationship with the Obama Administration on a new footing, one in which Russia is treated as an equal and a strategic partner. Moscow has underlined that it owes Washington no favors, and a cooperative relationship will come at a price. Much of this, of course, involves muscle-flexing: days after Obama was elected, Russia announced that it would deploy medium-range Iskander nuclear missiles in Kaliningrad, near the border with Poland, in response to Washington's planned missile shield. Just this week, Moscow quietly withdrew that threat...