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Imagine Israeli intelligence, the best and most experienced in the Middle East, planning the perfect scenario for Obeid's abduction. Even in its simplest form, their escapade seems far-fetched...
...fundamental problem in U.S.-Japanese relations is that the two countries have different concepts of how an economy should work. Americans and Europeans continually tell Tokyo that they want "fair" trade, which at its simplest means equal access to the market. The notion carries moral overtones that do not necessarily jibe with the Japanese view of the world. Kyoto University history professor Yuji Aida recently wrote that "the American predisposition to view things in simplistic black-and-white terms is antithetical to our mind-set. Whereas the U.S. was founded by a people convinced of a single, revealed truth, Japan...
...simplest systems do just what the old answering machines do: pick up the phone, play a prerecorded greeting and record whatever the caller has to say. Some add technological bells and whistles, like push-button controls that let their owners save messages or dispatch replies -- to one person or to hundreds of people. Other systems are set up to dispense information, offering callers a menu of choices and playing the messages they select. The most powerful machines combine voice-message units with huge computer files, which enable callers to use their telephones to navigate through long lists of stock quotes...
...time-consuming task. For instance, a snippet of DNA might read ACGGTAGAT, a message that researchers can decipher rather easily. It codes for a sequence of three of the 20 varieties of amino acids that constitute the building blocks of proteins. But the entire genome of even the simplest organism dwarfs that snippet. The genetic blueprint of the lowly E. coli bacterium, for one, is more than 4.5 million base pairs long. For a microscopic yeast plant, the length is 15 million units. And in a human being, the genetic message is some 3 billion letters long...
...debate within the council has been characterized by respect for all positions and a common understanding that persons on both sides of the issue are motivated by a sincere desire to do what is best for Harvard. Palmore offers no more than a "straw-man" representation of the two simplest arguments against the referendum...