Word: irregulars
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...waterfall or exactly what the weather will be a month from now. Reason: in systems governed by the mathematics of chaos, small events have big consequences. For instance, even the random firing of just a few neurons, say chaos theorists, can throw a normally beating heart into wildly irregular fibrillation. The best that scientists can do is recognize that the world's chaos follows certain patterns...
...airport, an occasion that called for an official reception. Because the road from the capital is frequently under fire, Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister Hakija Turajlic chose to travel by U.N. convoy. The precaution was of no avail. En route back to town, the convoy was halted by 40 Serb irregular troops. After 90 minutes, his captors shot Turajlic, a Muslim, seven times in the chest and head through the open door of the U.N. armored car, in the presence of five French peacekeepers. He died at U.N. headquarters, the first high-level political figure to be assassinated in the former...
...shoots from the slopes on one side of the city, and Muslim shoots from the other. Sometimes they throw shells at each other. Sometimes they drop them into town. The big shells arrive with a crisp, concussive WHUMP! But sniper fire you hear only at the shooting end -- an irregular background noise of flat, hard pops. You look up wildly at the hills and imagine the snipers squinting through cross hairs. You wonder what they may be able to see through the mist. You pause to decode the physics: the sound you hear has been taking its time, traveling...
Atrial fibrillation, which affects up to ten percent of people over 80, results from uncoordinated contraction of the two upper chambers of the heart. Irregular blood flow results, causing blood to pool in the chambers and clot. Strokes can then occur if the clots travel around the blood vessels and block blood flow...
Many Garden Street residents say that theshuttle schedule is so irregular that they oftenskip Union meals and miss notices about Yardevents such as first-year intramurals