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…it away. As insistently as I, and others in Sayeret Matkal, had wanted to play our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture Jerusalem, or amid the olive-green hills and valleys of the West Bank — we had to accept t...

… wanted someone who knew the department well in the deputy post (which is traditionally responsible for running things day to day). So he chose Rosenstein, who was respected by legal professionals in both parties.","textStyle":" ant-cts-1", "type": "text"}, (“identiftier":" ant—...

…ind power, and lower electricity costs, since electricity produced by wind at night could be stored and sold during the day; and electricity produced during sunny days could be stored and sold during cloudy spells. There are obvious tie-ins to the feasibility and cost of electric...

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66 government) perspective. While she acknowledges that there is not much diversity in the nature of the views represented by ICAS—there is no overt criticism of Chinese government policies—she is hopeful that once ICAS gains greater standing, it will be able to attract senior s...

… spend the rest of the time reading kung-fu magazines and practicing karate kicks outside. I am fired in a record three days, left with the parting comment, “Maybe someday you'll understand the value of hard work.” It seems I still don’t. 1993 I volunteer for a one-year exchange...

is not my intention. Let’s face it, though: There are tons of things in your home and life that you don’t use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you’re aware of it or not, this clutt...

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…s and the people could listen to. So what is the likelihood that Obama will announce on the steps of the Capitol on Monday that over these next four years he wants to make the arts a national priority and for that reason he is now nominating Sellars or Botstein to the newly crea...

… tons What we're watching USDA WASDE report (monthly) US grains stock report (quarterly) USDA crop progress (weekly, Monday) COT (weekly, Friday) Why it matters Revisions in acreage and yield estimates for the US crops remain a topic. Demand estimates are important, too, as they...

…first place. It was Dado who finally replied. Sort of. Trying to defuse the tension, he told us a joke from his Palmach days. “There are two bulls who come into a field full of cows. A young one and old one. The young one says to the old guy: let’s run over there to the far end o...

Chapter Ten: Defense in Depth In which gates, operated with our new instinct, become at once a tool of prosperity and survival. If you walk for a few minutes to the south of Tinanmen Square in Beijing, leaving the tomb of Mao Zedong behind you, there’s a small lane that runs ba...

12.3 The Value of an Explicit Goal System 209 12.3 The Value of an Explicit Goal System One of the subtle issues confronted in the quest to design ethical AGIs is how closely one wants to emulate human ethical judgment and behavior. Here one confronts the brute fact that, even...

… oldest jokes). And we wondered about why our lost adolescence exerted such magnetic attraction. "Those were the worst days of my life," one of the guys - who used to talk with a high voice - confided. Suddenly, we were all contemplative. Our adolescence was miserable, we acknow...

topological dimension as that of a line equal to one. If each time step had the largest up or down amplitude as possible, its fractal dimension would approach (but not reach) that of the embedding plane, Euclidean d = 2. The Do of the one dimensional Richardson technique (Mande...