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Several UN interventions in the past two years betoken an urgent need for more effective ways of deciding when international action is needed. The United Nations should seek help from some judicial process.
An over-charitable investigation of an attempt to calculate the irrational number π by casting a needle at random onto a ruled grid arrives at the conclusion that the experiment was never carried out.