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...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 tests, the scientists determined that the Harappan script had a similar measure of conditional entropy to other writing systems, including English, Sanskrit and Sumerian. If it mathematically looked and acted like writing, they concluded, then surely it is writing...
...Kennedy said after receiving his honorary doctorate.The event marked one of the few times that Harvard has awarded an honorary degree outside of the June Commencement. Three heads of state—George Washington, Nelson Mandela, and Winston Churchill—are the only people to receive similar awards at special ceremonies.“Now I have something in common with George Washington, other than being born on February 22,” Kennedy said. “It is not being president as I had once hoped.”—Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel...
...Similarly, the boom times of the late 1990s and 2000s—first the technology bubble, then the real estate bubble—were driven by over-leveraging and willful ignorance. Like PEDs of baseball’s elite, the acronyms of the financial world—CDOs, CDSs, LBOs, etc.—were not skills or products in and of themselves. Rather, like PEDs, they were once-exotic, unregulated tools that allowed really smart people to make a ton of money and marginally smart people to come along for the ride, eventually becoming common and insidiously far-reaching...
Criscuoll says every store in the Starbucks chain is examined for renovations every few years, and she expects many other stores to undergo similar changes—plus, the store in the Garage had several pieces of old equipment that needed to be replaced anyway...
...Olmert himself has been "wiped out." Months after offering the Palestinians a deal similar to Barak's, he was forced to resign last year as Israel's Prime Minister over a string of corruption allegations. On Sunday he became the first Israeli Prime Minister ever indicted on criminal charges, part of a scandal that will prevent him from returning to power anytime soon. (See pictures of the divided citizens of Jerusalem...