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Last Saturday's demonstration in Baghdad by tens of thousands of Shiites demanding immediate U.S. withdrawal was a sharp reminder of the pressure that will be placed on the leaders of the new government both by their own Shiite base and by the Sunni community they are energetically wooing. Such...
Whether Parnas is right or wrong, the task facing Star Wars programmers is enormous. To identify, track and order the destruction of thousands of missiles and tens of thousands of warheads, in 30 minutes or less, would require by far the largest single computer program ever written. Recent estimates put...
Even more daunting than the sheer size of the program is the requirement that it run flawlessly the first time out, a phenomenon unprecedented in the short history of computers. Says M.I.T. Physicist Herbert Lin, who last month published a critique of the Star Wars software problem: "No program works...
"Eisenhower had to find a way to bring that war to a conclusion. The truce talks had gone on for two years. During the talking at Panmunjom, tens of thousands of people were being killed. He had said, 'I will go to Korea,' in our campaign, and he was one...
Yet the lives of tens of thousands of blacks and whites remain intertwined. Every weekday a black woman in her early 60s, whose first name is Aletta, goes from her home in Soweto to the Parkwood suburb of Johannesburg, where she works half a day for a white family. She...