它的作者亨利·佩卓斯基博士，长期以来一直在写关于灾难的文章。

Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about disasters.

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1916年，香农出生于密歇根州的佩托斯基，他很早就显现出在数学和制造小玩意方面的天赋，学生时代时就在计算机技术的基础上取得了突破。

Born in 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, Shannon showed an early talent for maths and for building gadgets, and made breakthroughs in the foundations of computer technology when still a student.

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“我不得不考虑到拉宾和佩雷斯能否去签署《奥斯陆协议》，是因为他们认为以色列已经足够强大到可以保卫自己”，他告诉舒兰斯基。

"I had to take into consideration that maybe Rabin and Peres were able to go to the Oslo agreements because they believed that Israel was strong enough to defend itself," he tells the author.

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