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...straw mats on the asphalt, eating bowls of rice in the glare of their own headlights. Beside the road, some families who had walked the 45 kilometers from Phu Lap sat on straw mats around a single, thick red temple candle. A small kettle sat atop a tiny clump of burning sticks, boiling water for tea. But they had had no food all day and were still 25 kilometers away from sketchy and still unorganized relief efforts in Danang...
Most contemporary cosmologists agree that the universe was created billions of years ago when a superdense clump of primordial matter exploded with incredible force. The hot gases created by the "big bang" were flung violently outward, gradually cooling and coalescing into great islands of stars, or galaxies, that are still moving away from one another. Last week, after years of study and calculation, two respected California astronomers, Allan Sandage and James Gunn, made separate but similar announcements: the universe will continue to expand forever...
...lying on the ground. Near by was a section of rib cage and part of an arm. When a passer by heard about the bones and insisted that they must be from an animal, Hammons returned with him for a second look. "On the way back we found the clump of long black hair," said Hammons later. "It looked fresh and shiny and was about two feet long...
Most astronomers believe that the universe was born billions of years ago in a so-called "Big Bang"-a violent explosion of a primordial clump of matter. Ever since, fragments of that clump -consisting largely of the islands of stars called galaxies-have been flying apart. But the universe is expanding at a steadily decreasing speed; the outward flight of each galaxy is being slowed by the pull of gravity from the others. If that pull is strong enough, the galaxies will eventually be braked to a halt. Then they will begin falling back to crush together in a final...
...pleural arch is the site of the wing-hinge ligaments, the place where the wings are attached to the exoskeleton, hard outer covering. In fleas, as well as in dragonflies, locusts and certain other insects, the arch serves another purpose: as a repository for an extraordinary elastic-like clump of protein called resilin that can be stretched, and contracted back to its original shape, faster than any known rubber...