Relations between research labs in Cambridge England and Cambridge Massachusetts have been under considerable strain during the past few months. The strain has been said to derive from Nobelitis, a disease common in high-powered academic circles during the summer months. And the point at issue concerns who first solved the correct structure of transfer RNA (see this week's Monitor, p 709) – Aaron Klug and his colleagues in England, or Alexander Rich at MIT?

On the other hand, the same technique leads to a PTAS for geometric covering problem when the objects are convex pseudodisks (which includes disks, unit height rectangles, homothetic convex objects etc.).

American police simply were not prepared for the challenge that they faced in terms of planning, logistics, training and police command-and-control supervision, said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit that advises departments on management and tactics.

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