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Despite Japan's unexpected gold rush, reaction back home has been surprisingly muted. For the first few days, the papers focused more on early disappointments in men's soccer and women's softball, sports in which Japan had hoped to win medals. True, the major dailies did print a special...
The future of this spectacular species may depend on such experiments. Last fall animal conservationists were caught catnapping when a new survey revealed a sharp and unexpected drop in Africa's lion population. While the cat-conservation world was worried about the fate of Asia's endangered tigers, lions--considered...
“As noted in the citation, the paper is a model of clear exposition showing unexpected and interesting relations between different, seemingly unrelated areas of mathematics,” the MAA wrote in its press release.
“It is an unexpected honor and pleasure to have my first Monthly paper recognized by the Lester R. Ford Award,” Elkies wrote in an acceptance response that will be included in the prize booklet distributed today.
But the U.S. did get an unexpected offer of help last week. The Saudi government proposed that it help finance peacekeeping troops drawn from Muslim countries. But since Iraqi leaders don't want peacekeepers from neighboring nations, the offer of assistance will probably be merely symbolic. Indeed, it allows the...