Results for “Point Salines”

…Arik seemed to hoping that the Phalangist milita would go into the overwhelmingly Muslim western side of Beirut. At one point, he was even considering an Israeli attack. Fortunately, given the Phalangists’ record of violence bordering on savagery during the Lebanese civil war, Ba...

biggest difference for yourself and others. The Point of It All: Drumroll, Please What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. — VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Holocaust survivor; author of Man’s Sear...

…But that is in some ways misleading. Yes, I did know first-hand that we were not alone in our ancestral homeland. At no point in my childhood was I ever taught to hate the Arabs. I never did, even when, in my years defending the security of Israel, I had to fight, and defeat, the...

…ational state in the 1920s and 1930s). When I said I didn’t consider a binational state very realistic, he conceded the point, before noting that in the age of Netanyahu and Lieberman, most Palestinians don’t consider a two-state solution very realistic either. After a while, it...

…re of them, and Be Punctual! - If Tim says “Call me back,” CALL HIM BACK, do not send an e- mail. This is an important point, as Tim does not always have e- mail access because he is traveling a lot. e » Even if it is late in the evening, he is up late, if he does not want to...

…y should consider. Your Honor, the papers set forth very clearly that there's a specific rule of evidence directly on point with respect to settlement agreements, and they can't be used in that manner. Your Honor, we cite to our papers on that with respect to any prior settle...

…the world. I phone a friend who is also a fan and let them listen in. Perhaps I even use the camera and surreptitiously point the phone at the comedian. My live experience is digitized, compressed and transmitted over the mobile network to my friend. He gets the same experience b...

… assert this explanation____i.e., that he wimped out___while seeking a cabinet position with the expectation of being appointed to more exalted jobs in the future. Nor is the explanation particularly plausible. Acosta isn't the first prosecutor to face a scorched earth defense. A...

…ers in economics, I will use these words more or less interchangeably too. Now comes the centerpiece. A good starting point is the present value rule. We assemble value or total capital to satisfy foreseen tastes. But we also satisfy current tastes by spending current cash flow...

…h, the more likely an unlikely candidate is to get elected—ever more peculiar people fill the White House. Of course, a point about the Halberstam book and about the Trump campaign was that the most obvious players make grievous mistakes, too. Hence, in the Trump narrative, unlik...

…versatility of neurons and their synapses. This could become a new, great frontier of research. Here too, biology might point the way, as we come to understand biological development well enough to imitate its essence. Altogether, the advantages of artificial over natural intell...

…iece of music was translated from proof text to music file using a computer. It is clearly computed. but this is not my point. The music could not have come into existence in our Universe as a result of a computation. It is a computable translation of a non-computable string. It...

… Whether this is related to his highly creative thinking or just random chance is unknown, but it’s an interesting data point in our quest to understand creativity and intelligence. Looking through a microscope, the wrinkly grey matter is composed of 30 trillion neurons; small w...

… working on a zinc air battery solution $0.60 which aims to conquer all of the obstacles outlined in the second bullet point above. If the Eos projections bear out, they will offer battery storage at a capital cost of ~$160 per kWh, in the form of a 1 MW battery that is the size...

…ancial statements, and other records are all now available to the intelligence service of a government that has made a point of naming party loyalists to key security positions. The legislation also grants the domestic security agency the ability to shut down websites. The actio...