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...Having our two dimensions [on attack] helps us wi th the edge in getting us more versatile,” Ho added...
...program. Every language, the scientists suggest, possesses what is known as "conditional entropy": the degree of randomness in a given sequence. In English, for example, the letter t can be found preceding a large variety of other letters, but instances of tx and tz are far more infrequent than th and ta. "A written language comes about through this mix of built-in rules and flexible variables," says Mayank Vahia, an astrophysicist at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai who worked on the study. Quantifying this principle through computer probability tests, the scientists determined that the Harappan script...
Disorderly conduct has its roots in the mid--19th century, when police officers needed a way to quell street brawls that erupted between immigrants and nativist groups, like the 1849 riot at New York City's Astor Place Theatre that killed 22 people. Like all aspects of modern-day policing, it has its roots in British common law. While used in cases of individuals, disorderly conduct is just as common in group arrests--at, for instance, abortion clinics, rallies and political conventions. At New York City's 2004 Republican National Convention, more than 1,100 people were arrested...
...burned these machines here a couple of days ago as proof we're ready to go all the way," New Fabris employee Daniel Thébault told French news channel i-Télé as he motioned to several heaps of charred metal outside the main building. "We're not going to simply be discarded like worthless objects." (See the worst cars of all time...
...sure how you can take seriously a play whose comic coup de théâtre (it gets uproarious laughter) is a scene of projectile vomiting. But it's typical of Reza's quest for easy laughs at the expense of her superficially serious theme: the familiar one that civilized upper-middle-class people are really barbarians underneath. The unsavory revelations that emerge during the play's one long scene (e.g., one dad secretly got rid of his kid's pet hamster by turning it loose on the street) are mere contrivances played simply for laughs; I get more insights...