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Oommen also designed Harvard's Gordon Indoor Track, widely regarded as among the world's fastest...
...inen took a record three individual golds and a team bronze in cross-country for Finland. East and West Germans held forth generally in their luges and bobs. With $10,000, Americans made a hot last-minute purchase, picking up Switzerland's third-fastest four-man bobsled. After a brisk paint job at a Volkswagen shop, then a tippy practice run, four happy men led by Jeff Jost rode U.S.A. I to fifth place, behind G.D.R. I, G.D.R. II, Swiss I and Swiss II, and ahead of both Russian "cigarskis." While the U.S. took less glory and spread...
...away, and her marvelously readable face registered sublime relief and joy for herself, and pain and sorrow for Cooper. The two stood together, hugging and exclaiming and making faces, until last year's overall World Cup winner, Tamara McKinney, turned in a brilliant second run that was the fastest of the heat, but narrowly failed to win a bronze. Then the three of them stood together, hugging...
...into its smallest whole-number multiplicands greater than 1. For example, 3 and 5 are the only such factors of 15. But as numbers get larger, factoring them becomes increasingly difficult. Until recently, mathematicians despaired of factoring any number above 50 digits. They calculated that it would take the fastest computer, performing as many as a billion divisions a second, more than 100 million years to finish the task. Then, in the fall of 1982, a chance encounter closed the gap. During a scientific conference in Winnipeg, Canada, Gustavus Simmons, head of Sandia's applied-math department, was mulling...
...foreign debt, estimated at a total of $100 billion annually, that they are rescheduling loans by arguing that they are near bankruptcy. In the meantime, sub-Saharan Africa's population of 210 million in 1960 has grown to 393 million. It continues to increase by 2.9% annually, the fastest growth rate in the world...