Word: simplex
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...because it is a welfare housing program. That's the function of the Cambridge Housing Authority, the Section Eight Program, the community development corporations such as the Riverside Cambridgeport Community Corporation, the various neighborhood initiatives for linkage or leverage such as those by Area Four Coalition, the Simplex Committee, and numerous initiatives in East Cambridge under Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's guidance. We strongly support the adoption of a city-wide linkage plan to aid middle as well as low to moderate income residents...
...other big issues facing the council involve development. Developer Forest City Enterprises wants to turn the 27-acre Simplex development near MIT into housing, business and retail space over the next 15 years...
Neighborhood groups, who oppose this move in favor of low-cost housing and blue-collar jobs on the Simplex site, are expected to petition the City Council to tighten the area's zoning restrictions...
...relatively minor risk to school-age children. In fact, by age 18, some 80% to 95% of Americans have been exposed to at least one of the five types of herpes viruses; most experience no symptoms at all. True, some 10% to 30% of those exposed to herpes simplex Type 1 will develop cold sores, but these facial eruptions, mostly around the mouth and nose, hardly qualify as a disfiguring disease. The three victims of the boycotts have more serious symptoms because they were exposed prenatally or around the time of birth...
Before the Karmarkar method, linear equations could be solved only in a cumbersome fashion, ironically known as the simplex method, devised by Mathematician George Dantzig in 1947. Problems are conceived of as giant geodesic domes with thousands of sides. Each corner of a facet on the dome represents a possible solution to the equation. Using the simplex method, the computer scours the surface of the dome millions of times to pinpoint the corner with the most likely solution. But the method is slow, and it works only when there are merely a few thousand variables to sort through. Says Karmarkar...