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The election campaign failed to shed much light on the probable course of American foreign policy over the next four years. Domestic issues and personalities dominated the presidential contest; there was no urgent issue comparable to Korea in 1952, the Berlin and Cuban confrontations of the 1960s, Vietnam in the 1970s or even the Iran hostage crisis of 1980. President George Bush will probably not be confronted with a burning foreign policy problem in his first hundred days.

This post is about minimizing amount of disk IO and CPU overhead when reading Zip files. I recently saw an article about a new format that was faster than zip. This is quite surprising as to my mind, zip is one of the most flexible and low-overhead formats I’ve encountered. Some googling showed me that over past 11 years people have noticed that Firefox uses optimized zip files. This inspired me to document thinking behind the optimized zip format I implemented in Firefox in the pre-pandem...

ONCE, BEFORE I knew him well, I asked Barry Lopez the earliest thing he could remember. Without missing a beat, the most widely traveled and sophisticated

Northern Maine Community College’s automotive technology program will begin the fall 2021 semester with a significant upgrade to their lab equipment. 

News of the Biden-Putin summit is a rare positive signal amid an otherwise doom and gloom atmosphere as U.S.-Russian relations have sunk to historic lows.

/PRNewswire/ -- British body armour manufacturer PPSS Group is urging private security professionals as well as law enforcement officers to ensure they are...

a- Does the Guinness Book of World Records have an entry for the politician fastest to apologize for Thought Crimes about ethnic issues? I figured Sen. Trent Lott held the world championship in the apology Olympics. But now comes Rep. James Moran, who seems to have trounced even the Mississippi senator in the belly-crawl competition. Mr. Morans of...

The theologian who challenged papal infallibility Father Hans Küng was dubbed Antichrist for his views on governance, liturgy, birth control, clerical celibacy and abortion Catholic theologian Father Hans Küng challenged papal infallibly and lost his license to teach Catholic theology. The controversial Swiss-born theologian’s lucidly expressed thoughts found a place in more than 50 books and countless speeches. Father Küng’s relentless tirade against the Church’s hierarchy, particular...

Hans Küng, Catholic Theologian With a Powerful Critique, Dies at 93 A prolific writer and a prominent speaker, he promoted dialogue among religions and challenged Vatican doctrine on many fronts, provoking its censure. The theologian Hans Küng speaking in New York in 1980, with a copy of one of the more than 50 books he wrote. “Never again would a theologian have such influence,” a Vatican expert wrote after all Dr. Küng’s proposals at the Second Vatican Council were accepted in the ...

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