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...Upwind of the fire line, a fire is started--usually in the morning or evening, when breezes are calmer--that burns parallel to the fire line...
...playing a guessing game,” he said. “It was preposterously inefficient. It took 12 months of computer time, with several computers running in parallel...
...Earlier this week, a security alert left thousands of Israelis stuck for hours at military roadblocks or remaining indoors (an ironic parallel with Palestinian life on the West Bank). The security clampdown worked, that day, and the terror suspects apparently left the area. But media commentators noted that even when the terror is foiled, Israelis pay a heavy price. And the same region went back on full alert Thursday...
Iain Pears' The Dream of Scipio (Riverhead; 398 pages) ticks along at a slower, statelier pace, more like a grandfather clock. Set in Provence, it tells three stories from three eras that unfold in parallel: a 5th century Roman sophisticate faces the fall of his empire; a Renaissance man stares down the Black Death; and a French classicist watches as his country is overrun by the Germans in World War II. The thread connecting these three men is an ancient philosophical manuscript that each man encounters, but the real bond among them is that they face a common paradox. Civilization...
...white photos, one of Julia's family before she moved to the U.S., the other of teenage Andy, both hand-colored by Julia in a style that resembles Warhol's technique, Bycko says. In another exhibit, a greeting card with a picture of the Last Supper, Julia used long parallel stitches to highlight the robes of Jesus and some of the Apostles. A pen-and-ink drawing of a messenger angel she drew on a Christmas card has been reproduced by the museum as a chandelier...