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There are a number of questions and controversies surrounding last month's Undergraduate Council presidential and vice-presidential elections, but we can draw only one conclusion from the confusion: Fentrice D. Driskell '01 and John A. Burton '01 overspent the campaign limit of $100, broke the election rules and should have been, but were not, disqualified by the Election Commission for their offenses...
Bradley has denied the charge, arguing that his proposal would increase the number of Americans with insurance coverage...
...That position - essentially supported by Bradley - will certainly be applauded in Democratic core constituencies who were appalled by the Clinton administration's retreat to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy. But it set alarm bells ringing in military circles, as a number of former commanders rushed critical comments into print. Elsewhere in the debate, the candidates sparred testily on health care, campaign finance and their respective voting records, in a tone of civility akin to the cursory touching of gloves required of boxers entering their final round - and sometimes with all the trash-talking of a prefight media...
Math-phobics of the world take heart - if a monkey can do it, anybody can. Researchers at Kyoto University have taught a female chimp named Ai to count and manipulate numbers. In an article published in a forthcoming edition of Nature, researchers report that Ai was usually able to memorize and repeat sequences when flashed with any five numbers between 1 and 9 in random order - putting her at least on par with the average preschooler. Adult humans, in contrast, usually have a difficult time remembering more than seven random numbers (hence the length of phone numbers). Animals have long...
...course they did. In Japan, for example, computers in the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Number 2 nuclear plant, located north of Tokyo, spontaneously reset their dates to February 2036. The date problem caused some important information on the position of the plant's control rods not to be displayed. The glitch is now fixed. It has tentatively been tagged as Y2K-related. MORE...