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Thursday, September 9, 1999 N ATION The Battalion ract ! around he: it since the!-- /as placed, s: ise attorney ra said hew. 9 degrees of separation y Fernando i the teens air ter of the mo otre Dame study illustrates interconnectivity of Internet AP) — Any two randomly picked pages on the World e Web are on average just 19 clicks away from each searchers say. ?r. 'hebindings, reported in today’s issue of the jour- Nature, suggest that the Web is so interconnected any desired information is nearby even though e are 800 million documents available. The key is wing which links to click. 'he study calls to mind the movie and Broadway i Six Degrees of Separation — which holds that all 190S, Sta:. pj e are connected to one another by no more than lowers sau individuals — and the party game “Six Degrees of ?nt andirrep,m,Bacon,” in which players try to make a con- i Austin i t j 0n between actor Kevin Bacon and another 5 brity using six or fewer other stars and movies. The study was conducted by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, niversity of Notre Dame physics professor. Fhev constructed a robot that collected all the links IS SO SUCC6S: nst a while hrtez said. bar five pec ies (here. resto: on a Web page and followed them to their destination. The process was repeated over and over again. Using statistical tools, they figured out the average distance between two random pages. And even if the Web grows 1,000 percent, the distance would change only from 19 clicks to 21. Search engine companies could use the findings to create programs that more intelligently figure out what’s available. A recent study showed that even the best search engine scours onlyabout 34 percent of the Web. “Knowing something about the topology lets you know how far you need to go to catch something that might be out there,” Steve Lawrence, a re searcher at the NEC Research Institute and co-au thor of a previous study on the effectiveness of searches, said. “The search engine companies are going to benefit from this kind of knowledge.” egiapongress returns to work awmakersface spending issues, health-care questions WASHINGTON (AP) — The Re- >al Man blican-controlled Congress re- iLtnigor. - net i to W ork yesterday, tugged .opoz whir conflicting forces of compro- se and confrontation with the : school: bite House on tax cuts, spend- idors in ’ g, health care, gun control and d publicf her issues likely to dominate the lal months of the year, ils ruledth: “I don’t see any indication the i merit opn esident wants to work with us,” wsuit aga Tiate Majority Leader Tbent Lott, R- - said s... iss., told reporters after predicting ■hurcha: Taction-packed” September and aih at - :tober. “What the president wants drum!sin: more spending, more spending, ■dgc at: ore spending for everything.” Senate Democratic leader Tom rators: ; aschle sounded only slightly less would ?ssimistic about the prospects for Ny.uis; ampromise. He said he had talked 'ith Lott, and he expressed the aon. Lon °P e they could work together, not advise; But . h e added, “Clearly we [De- tocrats] will fight and we will ag- itendem Massively pursue” an agenda that 0 ■ . tcludes gun control, education, legislation relating to HMDs, an in crease in the minimum wage and money for hard-hit farmers. Both sides immediately began jockeying for position on education. 'What the president wants is more spending, more spending, more spending for everything.” — Trent Lott Senate Majority Leader Daschle, D-S.D., listed the issue as part of the Democrats’ fall agenda, and House Speaker Dennis Hastert traveled to an elementary school to underscore Republican support. There, he issued a call to President Clinton to “work together in educa tion. Let’s take steps today that will make our nation’s schools better. ” Clinton, too, talked of compro mise during the day, at the same time he prodded Republicans to move legislation on health care. “Ever since we’ve had this divid ed government, we normally have to wait till the 11th hour for really good things to happen. ... As I said a cou ple of days ago, it is now 10:30, we’re ready for the 11th hour,” he said. The House and Senate both spent the day debating routine spending measures during the day, preludes to larger clashes looming just over the horizon. Lott said tax cut legislation ap proved before Congress’ break would go to the White House next week for its threatened veto. Clinton’s rejection of the mea sure will present Republicans with an important decision: whether to set the issue aside until next year’s election campaign or attempt to work out a compromise that also would cover issues as diverse as spending and Medicare. 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