Word: tenseness
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Pi, as every schoolchild used to know, is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. But in the electronic age, the ancient Babylonian constant -- or rather the accurate calculation of its value -- has become a symbol of computational prowess. In the 1950s the U.S. led the...
Yet the problem for Li, Yang, Qiao or anyone else trying to rule China in the post-Tiananmen era is not more street protests. In the few days after the massacre, demonstrations and strikes did erupt in several key cities -- from Shenyang in Manchuria to central Wuhan to southern Guangzhou...
The worst prospect for both U.S. business and strategic interests would be for hard-liners to win the power struggle and launch a massive crackdown, rounding up dissident students and workers by the tens of thousands and shipping them off to the Chinese Gulag, a little-known but long-established...
As the military underwent repeated purges and came under the influence of the clerics, its force was swiftly applied to suppress ethnic minorities that had supported the revolution in hopes of gaining greater cultural and political autonomy. The excesses led to nearly 10,000 executions -- some put the actual figure...
Harvard's lack of a plan for the property may now be leading it into a legal battle, which City Solicitor Russell B. Higley says could take at least a year and cost tens of thousands of dollars.