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Eventually, a brilliant young mathematician named Org discovered that laying branches over the pit was the answer. Although this method of warfare soon became obsolete--in the early 1900s the Russians officially banned us from going into their country and digging these dangerous pits--the demand for additional weaponry continued to rise steadily...
...some 140 political prisoners pardoned last month by Soviet Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the best known was Mathematician Iosif Begun, a 54-year-old refusenik. He was freed after serving 3 1/2 years of a seven-year term for anti-Soviet activity that consisted mainly of teaching Hebrew and campaigning for Jewish cultural rights. After being reunited with his family and friends on a Moscow train platform last week, Begun relaxed in his apartment and spoke with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson of how he passed his time in prison. A compact man with cheerful blue eyes...
...resurfaced on a children's show. In a sly takeoff of The Paper Chase, two of the show's regular cast members impersonate Professor Kingsfield and Martin Short's nerdy Ed Grimley character (they figure out whether $250 will be enough to buy all the lawbooks needed). The Samurai Mathematician (with bows to John Belushi) hacks boards into halves, thirds and fourths for a lesson in fractions. Humphrey Bogus and Bergrid Ingman star in an "edited for television" movie, Cartablanca; at the end of this version, "Nick" decides to leave on the plane, but calculations show that...
...more anti-Soviet propaganda. Though the Kremlin claims to have told 500 Soviet Jews last month that they could emigrate, a figure that is almost certainly exaggerated, it seemed clear last week that most refuseniks were not yet enjoying the benefits of glasnost. Naum Meiman, 75, a mathematician and close friend of Sakharov's, has repeatedly been denied permission to leave the country on the grounds that he was engaged in classified work in the 1950s. After his wife's death in Washington last week, U.S. officials urged the Soviet Union, to no avail, to allow Meiman to attend...
...Columbia University mathematician, Edward Kasner, announced the discovery of a new type of geometry, in which, The Times said, "the sum of the measure of the parts is greater than the measure of the whole...