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...five books don’t intersect so much as lie tangent to one another. Instead, they remain in orbit around the novel’s center, the Mexican border city of Santa Teresa (the fictionalized Ciudad Juárez, across the Rio Grande from San Jose, TX) where scores of women are raped and murdered every year without a major conviction...
...structure against other known languages using a computer 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...
...Most Ozone-Polluted Cities: 1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA 2. Bakersfield, CA 3. Visalia-Porterville, CA 4. Fresno-Madera, CA 5. Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX...
...Cleanest Cities for Short-Term Particle Pollution: 1. Alexandra, LA 2. Amarillo, TX 3. Austin-Round Rock, TX 4. Bismarck, ND 5. Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville, TX...
...Dallas Museum of Art, through March 15, 2009, is Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, which includes 20 works by the artist exploring the interplay of light, color and space. The large-scale installations make you feel like you're strolling through a kaleidoscope. 1717 North Harwood, Dallas, TX...