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…et of numbers that behaved in strange ways. Cantor was upsetting the apple cart, but he was in good company. Just a few miles away in Berlin, a young Albert Einstein was beginning to study physics in his spare time. Those studies would culminate in his four papers of 1905, two on...

…day when requested. It’s carried ~ by workers who slip, silently, under the porte cocheres. Then it gets whisked twenty miles away to a landfill that the garbage- men call Mount Trashmore. Noel's stretch of the Estate Section runs from the Everglades Club to the southernmost tip...

…lding, take whatever they wanted, and walk out with it and they would never know. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 | aaa MILES NORTHWEST of Honolulu on the island of Oahu, adjacent to the sprawling Wheeler Air Force Base, is a 250,000- square-foot, man-made mound of earth and rein...

…141, HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033301 One's 43. The presidential jet is also slightly faster with a range of about 6,800 nautical miles compared to 4,100 for a 757. A VC-25A can also be refuelled in mid-air by a tanker, extending its range even further. The two presidential planes cost $32...

…ty of such gates is clear enough when you contemplate the forces they are intended to keep out: Refugees see prosperity miles on their phones. Little wonder they rush at it. Internet- transmitted messages light up ideologies, protests or fundamentalisms that pull people back and...

…right direction. But the need to navigate around the dunes meant we were never moving in a perfectly straight line. The miles ticking by on the truck’s odometer couldn’t tell me exactly how far we’d travelled. A couple of times, I realized we were wandering off line — not by a mu...

…ant drug effect. Recall my experience of the sudden emergence of a first second wind after a mile or so of my daily ten miles of running. It was frequently accompanied by inner bursts of obsessive, paranoid thoughts. Taking five milligrams of amphetamine felt much like the first...

… well. Ron and I were the only two left alive. We had won the war, and not just because our forces were now within 60 miles of Cairo, and only 25 from Damascus. We had been attacked by two huge 157 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028005

…aped her at gun point. She admitted that she made up the entire story after learning that the man she accused was 1,500 miles away at the time. In New York, a woman who claimed she was raped at gun point in Central Park was arrested after it was discovered that she had filed ele...

…esident Trump and Prime Minister Abe openly discussed how to respond to North Korea’s launch of a missile three hundred miles into the Sea of Japan. Standing right over the president’s shoulder was Michael Flynn. If Bannon, Priebus, and Kushner believed that Flynn’s fate hung in...

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…squid, shoaling fish, and small crustaceans but in early winter they gather into breeding colonies (rookeries) up to 60 miles inland in April and May during the Antarctic winter. They search for their mate from the previous year, and go through a courtship ritual before mating. T...

…y Road in November in response to the speeding problem. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary the abbreviation of miles per hour is “mph” and there should be a number in front of mph designating the speed. On these signs, the number is omitted, so 86 A Pulitzer Prize-Winnin...

…ugh. They became known as “The 35”. Marching through the night from Jerusalem, they had made it only within a couple of miles of Gush Etzion when they were surrounded and attacked by local Arabs. By late afternoon, all of them were dead. When the British authorities recovered the...

…lt the obstacles we’d faced with Sabena, they were almost child’s play compared to getting a sayeret assault team 5,000 miles across the continent of Africa, surprising the terrorists, freeing the hostages unharmed and getting them out. That was even assuming, as I did at that po...