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...they had made their assaults. "Either the Iranians will come to make peace with us, or we will kill them all," said an Iraqi officer. "They cannot take our land." For miles behind the Iraqi lines, tanks, armored personnel carriers and heavy artillery were dug into the brown-gray sand. Iraqi forces seemed to be well supplied. "The Iranians attacked in waves," said the Iraqi commander near a place in the wasteland called Al Azarh, "but they had no chance...
Victor and Matthew are accompanied by their teenaged daughters, Jennifer (Michelle Johnson) and Nicki (Demi Moore). While the foursome drive along the strip of beach upon arriving at Rio and notice sun bleached bodies cavorting on the sand, Victor asks "Maybe we should talk about 'boys." We see however, as the film progresses, that Victor's parental concerns do not extend any farther than the brief car ride. In fact by the end of the film, we begin to wonder who the children really...
...crises, to suicide, yet while they present them, they do not have any substantive messages or themes to relay. Instead, they seem to respond to them simply out of a sense of misplaced duty, just as stupidly as when Jennifer remembers to remove her retainer before rolling in the sand with Matthew...
Unlike ordinary computers, the Cray can sample whole clusters of numbers simultaneously, like a sieve sifting through sand for coins. At Sandia, Simmons joined with his colleagues Mathematicians James Davis and Diane Holdridge to teach their own Cray how to factor. That involved developing an algorithm, or set of algebraic instructions, that would break the problem down into small steps. They succeeded admirably. In rapid succession they factored numbers of 58, 60, 63 and 67 digits. At this point, however, even the power of their Cray seemed to have reached its limit. But the Sandia team made one more...
...generally regarded as a major poet. Edmund Wilson accurately summed it up with "writes well, but there is not much in her." Her gift was for the short, precise line: "The hard sand breaks,/ and the grains of it/ are clear as wine." She was greatly influenced by ancient Greek and encouraged by Ezra Pound, to whom she was briefly engaged. Hilda first met him when she was 15 and he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania; her father was director of the school's Flower Astronomical Observatory. Doolittle and Pound were not the only future literary...