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...Football managers looking to the World Cup for clues to the state of their art might want to send away to Darjeeling for a certain (very thin) coaching manual. Because the most obvious lesson to be drawn from the first round of the tournament is that the simplest strategies are the most effective. The surprising success stories?Sweden, Ireland, Denmark?hewed closest to the St. Paul's school of football. They packed their defenses with up to eight large bodies and booted the ball up toward a couple of speedy forwards. It bored spectators to distraction, but delivered the results...
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What all these new findings come down to, suggests Dr. Molly Wagster, program director of neuropsychology of aging research at the National Institute on Aging, is some of the oldest and simplest truths we've known from childhood. If your short-term memory is failing you now, she says, "try to remember your parents telling you to read a book, eat your fruits and vegetables, go outside and play, and get a good night's sleep...
Coupled with the fact that conventional equations can describe only the simplest natural phenomena (you can write an equation for the orbit of a single planet around the sun, for example, but not for an entire solar system, let alone a living cell), the success of his simple programs made Wolfram suspect that science has been heading in the wrong direction for the past 300 years or so. Instead of trying to write complicated equations for everything, he says, scientists should have been searching instead for the cellular automata that correspond to what they are observing...
...atmosphere of beauty and piety and fear. Every place, no matter how ordinary, seems burdened with the years of violence. Outside our hotel four months ago, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up, wounding two people and sending his own body parts into guests' rooms. And even in the simplest of exchanges, people are frozen between moments of hope and intimidation. At the seam between the Jewish and Armenian quarters one morning last week, the photographer who took this picture and I got a flat tire. An Israeli Arab municipal worker stopped to help. The gentle exchange was disrupted...