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...City of Cambridge will be without a mayor for at least two more weeks, as the new City Council members, despite narrowing down the number of candidates, have yet to elect a leader for the 2010-2012 term...
...arch-pragmatist, she knows that public opinion in Germany will not blithely countenance a significant increase. She refuses to comment on her plans until she attends an international conference on Afghanistan in London on Jan. 28. Many German political analysts think she may compromise by keeping the number of troops steady but pledging a bigger role for Germany in training Afghan security forces...
...often calculates 20 moves ahead and can comfortably play several games simultaneously while blindfolded simply by hearing each move in notation. The fear surrounding any such beautiful mind is that a life spent probing the edges of the infinite - the possible permutations of a chess game outnumber the estimated number of atoms in the universe - will eventually lead to madness. Grand masters say Carlsen's precociousness is reminiscent of Bobby Fischer's. The great American player spent his later years in isolation, reappearing only to spout anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. "It's easy to get obsessed with chess," Carlsen says...
Unlike classical computers, quantum computers can account for an exponential number of possibilities when looking at a single piece of information...
...fact that they may end up having to swallow many of the Senate provisions. Over on the Senate side of the Capitol, Harry Reid faces an even more delicate challenge in holding together the 60 votes he got to pass the bill on Christmas Eve. That was exactly the number he needed to overcome a Republican filibuster...