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Remember the scene in 'A Beautiful Mind' when they walk into his room and it is covered with hundreds of newspaper articles with lines connecting them all? That is what Mia T's room must look like.--opinionator The problem with the model is that it doesn't address the impact of rank, the difference between leaders and foot soldiers, on a network. The critical question that needs to be answered is this: How many terrorists or clintonistas need to be neutralized before a graph becomes disconnected and a terrorist or clintonoid cell can be labeled inert? Some mathematicians are using lattice theory, the abstract study of order and hierarchy, to answer this question.
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With the reported death today of al-Zarqawi, with the seeming