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Scientists have long been fascinated by the sun's center, where all the energy originates that supports life on earth. But the only practical way to observe this arcane spot is to study the neutrinos that are a by-product of its fierce thermonuclear reactions. The ghostly particles pay hardly any attention to matter. All except one in a billion of them pass through the sun's dense material and escape into space...
Tidy Income. Companies that accumulate lists fall into two clear-cut categories. One is made up of firms that produce lists as a by-product of their regular business-magazines, gift houses, professional associations, book and record clubs, credit-card firms, charities. They make a tidy side income (as much as $250,000 a year for an active list of 1,000,000 names) by renting them out through some 30 U.S. list brokers. Industry sources estimate that the Diners Club makes more than $350,000 a year circulating its members' names...
...largely unanticipated by-product of civil rights activity this year has been its creative impact on television news coverage. All three major networks have pioneered aspects of television journalism: more network energy was devoted to the March on Washington than to any single event in history; CBS presented a one-hour debate on the northern press and civil rights; and NBC devoted three hours of prime evening time to an exploration of what it called "American Revolution--1963." Finally, on Monday night ABC joined the race with the best entry so far--a unique, one-hour documentary appropriately named Crisis...
...risen above mere writing to become an economic phenomenon. His twelve books have sold over 9,000,000 copies; seven movies have been made from his work. He created one television series, which ran for three seasons (Adventures in Paradise), and South Pacific made him the most successful single by-product of Rodgers and Hammerstein. If Michener went public, his 1963 annual report would be bullish. Caravans, his seventh novel, is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, is being condensed in the Ladies' Home Journal (for $50,000), and has already been picked up by Hollywood...
...various places around the campus during the March rains. One of those places was the Yard, where the poisoned nuts lay buried. The noxious bacteria in the tea found the toxic substance in the acorns a perfect nutriment. The odoriferous gas you have inquired about is a little-known by-product of their metabolism, encountered only when the bacterial colonies are able to grow without restraint. I'll wager there won't be much green in the Yard for Commencement Exercises this Spring...