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You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

The Road Ahead (1995)

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

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I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

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