Friday, March 17, 2006
HAVE SOME PI
By Stockton
Rajav says that the Pi-Recitation was just a warm-up for his next challenge: an attempt to recite each and every reason the Bush Administration used for the Iraq War.
Vietnam War Deserter Arrested 38 Years On
The new drive was implemented when a drive to track down Vietnam-era men that used family connections to get into National Guard Units was scrapped.
SALEM, Va. - A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.
Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American Pi recitation and 12th in the world.
Rajav says that the Pi-Recitation was just a warm-up for his next challenge: an attempt to recite each and every reason the Bush Administration used for the Iraq War.
Vietnam War Deserter Arrested 38 Years On
Julian Borger in WashingtonTuesday March 14, 2006
A man was being held in a US military prison yesterday for deserting from the marines 38 years ago after being caught on the American-Canadian border amid a new drive to track down Vietnam-era deserters.
The new drive was implemented when a drive to track down Vietnam-era men that used family connections to get into National Guard Units was scrapped.
