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Quote:"The poll surveyed 750 likely Minnesota voters between last Wednesday and Sunday. It has a conventional margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points and a more conservative margin of 5.1 percentage points.
The poll shows Minnesotans are split on Obama's job performance: 48 percent approve, 48 percent don't.
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Quote:"The conundrum involves finding the shortest route that allows a travelling salesman to call at all the locations he has to visit. Computers solve the problem by comparing the length of all possible routes and choosing the one that is shortest.
Bees manage to reach the same solution using a brain the size of a grass seed.
Dr Nigel Raine, from Royal Holloway's school of biological sciences, said: "Foraging bees solve travelling salesman problems every day. They visit flowers at multiple locations and, because bees use lots of energy to fly, they find a route which keeps flying to a minimum."
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// Do people really think Emmer gets just 34% of the vote on election day? In this political climate? Anyone?
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