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Advantage Lost. Last week's Supreme Court decision did not set forth a specific percentage figure for fair representation, but 15% above or below the state's district norm is generally considered the benchmark figure. Altogether there are 33 states in which districts fall outside that standard. Even before the court rendered its decision, suits similar to the one in Georgia were pending in Texas and Maryland. Close on the heels of the decision, Maryland's Governor J. Millard Tawes asked for a postponement of the state's May 19 house primaries in the hope that...
Stresses & Strains. The geodesic dome, then, is really a kind of benchmark of the universe, what 17th century Mystic Jakob Böhme might call "a signature of God." It crops up all over in nature-in viruses, testicles, the cornea of the eye. And for the time being at least, Bucky Fuller has this signature of God sewed up tight in U.S. patent No. 2,682,235, issued in June 1954. It is almost like having a patent on Archimedes' principle...