The BBC Story states: Israel will take unilateral steps to separate from the Palestinians unless there is progress on the roadmap peace plan, Ariel Sharon has warned. These would include the dismantling of settler outposts and accelerating the building of the controversial security barrier in the West Bank, he said. The Palestinian Prime Minister has ...
Mark Pilgrim wrote up Hilbert’s Hotel an example of using a diagonal argument that uses the metaphor of an infinite hotel to discuss the difference between countable and uncountable infinite quantities (e.g. the fact that the Real numbers is a “bigger” infinity than the Natural numbers). Interesting reading.
Jacques Chirac has declared that France ‘must outlaw Islamic head coverings, Jewish skullcaps, and other obvious religions signs in schools and regulate them in the workplace.’ according to the Star-Ledger. A ban on wearing conspicuous religious insignia such as head scarves, large crucifixes or Jewish skullcaps in public schools will likely be in place by ...
The Star-Ledger covered a note about a Latvian man who was picked up with a blood-alcohol level of 7.22 PPM, approximately twice the level at which most people stop breathing (4.0). Even better was the hospital’s emergency ward head who ‘told reporters there was no record of anybody having survived such a dose, even in ...
Teddy Eaten by ATM
Dec
20
2003
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