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Afghan Summer

A suicide bomber detonated his car in the market of a southern Afghan town Thursday, killing 21 civilians and wounding 13 … four Canadian soldiers in a NATO contingent were killed and 10 were...

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Go: Chess x 1000

A very rough estimate might be that the evaluation function [for computer Go] is, at best, 100 times slower than chess, and the branching factor is four times greater at each play; taken together,...

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Robert Boyle, Irish Chemist

A rather slipshod article in the New York Times about alchemy manages to perpetuate a typical error: it calls Robert Boyle a “British chemist”. This is an error. He was born in 1627 in...

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CYA

Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to...

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Viscous Slave Army

Howard Dunbar’s Tanker Truck 6 rolled into the station one chilly night … and then proceeded to unload 7,723 gallons of gasoline and diesel into the station’s underground tanks. It took Dunbar 29 minutes...

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Bog Man Mohawk Metrosexuals

Scientists … have been examining the latest preserved prehistoric bodies to emerge from Ireland’s peat bogs — the first to be found in Europe for 20 years. One of the bodies … had raised...

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Subterranean Qana Blues

Tragedy visited Qana again Sunday, a once-picturesque village of figs, grapevines and olive trees along rolling, rocky hills where Lebanese believe Jesus Christ turned water into wine for a wedding. It was here on...