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Because the new pulsar is so young, it is spinning almost unimaginably fast. Its "day" is only one two-thousandth of a second long, and while the earth's equator rotates at about 1,000 m.p.h., the pulsar's is moving at more than 200 million m.p.h. By rights, the pulsar should fly apart, but it is so dense -- a teaspoon of it would weigh 300,000 tons on earth -- that its gravity holds it together. Says Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a member of the discovery team: "We can't help being astounded by what we are seeing...
...transfer, the drug-consumer nations are, in effect, providing vital raw ingredients for the scourge that bedevils them and that they often blame exclusively on coke-producing countries. "Look at all this equipment," said a Colombian police commander last week, surveying the ruins of a coke lab. "It's almost all from the U.S. And these chemicals come from all over the world. All Latin America supplies are the coca leaves and the labor...
...will come if he decides to sell the thrift. One source close to the deal says that a profitable American Savings might fetch Bass a tidy $1 billion or more. Bass could conceivably still lose money on the deal if his thrift were to suffer losses, but that is almost an impossibility because it has been cleansed of its failing assets. Since FSLIC shoulders almost all the risk, the better Bass does, the less the deal will cost the Government. "We hope he makes a lot of money," says Bank Board member Roger Martin, who negotiated the sale. "We want...
...barn, it is a powerful reminder that our agricultural lands are still in the hands of the many." Kerry Dawson, professor of landscape architecture at the University of California at Davis, describes barns as "superb building technology," but adds, "As you look upward, the timbers and rafters are almost cathedral-like...
...instead of clear priorities, the President offered a clutter of programs, almost all marginal adjustments in the status quo. By awkwardly trying to match the concerns of a liberal Democrat with the means of a parsimonious Republican, Bush ended up with an incoherent philosophy that might be dubbed Reaganomics with a human face...