>>>Benoit Mandelbrot died a few days ago, at the age of 85 years. He is especially known for his investigations about fractals.
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>>And it was a facinating discovery.
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>>Is there any word on the Bahai folks in Iran?
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>They were originally sentenced (in a show trial) to 20 years of prison. More recently the sentence was reduced to 10 years. Still unfair, considering that their crime is their religious beliefs, nothing else.
Some details can be found here:
http://news.bahai.org/story/793
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
