As military and security agencies do everything from coordinating action in Iraq to sifting through telephone and banking records on the home front, they collect mountains of data that are difficult to organize and manipulate, and in which intelligence connections can get lost. Now, database tricks borrowed from the world of particle physics are helping intelligence and law enforcement agencies-and any other organizations that manage large, complex databases-to act on their data more nimbly.

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