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...benevolent in beaux arts grandeur -- the reassurance offered by architecture that the individual is the reason for the state. And every part of it is functional: the detached facade wall of each terrace, for instance, is also a thick screen that carries the ducting needed to circulate 8 million cubic meters of conditioned air an hour...
...large star that has collapsed under its own gravity and then exploded, leaving behind a spinning, tightly packed ball of neutrons. Incredible as it seems, that ball, which is more massive than the sun, is only ten miles or so in diameter and is so dense that a cubic inch would weigh 100 billion tons on earth. Its partner in the celestial dance is a white dwarf, a dying star once comparable in size and mass to the sun that has burned up its fuel and shrunk to about three times the size of the earth. But the dwarf still...
...most famous invention drove millions to distraction and him to the bank. Now Erno Rubik is beyond cubic. His latest brain twister, unveiled last week in Budapest, consists of eight thin 2-in. plastic squares joined by a cunning latticework of plastic threads: "Fishing line pretty much," he says. The key to Rubik's Magic Puzzle, which he has been working on for two years, is the thread and a special hinge allowing the linked squares to be rearranged in a countless array of three-dimensional configurations. "I haven't been able to calculate it," says Rubik with a trace...
...local worries about safety at Chernobyl. A story printed a month or so ago in Literaturna Ukraina, a Kiev publication, attacked shoddy building practices and workmanship at the power station. Writer Lyubov Kovalevska, who lives near the facility, noted "deficiencies" in the quality of construction and demanded that "each cubic meter of reinforced concrete must guarantee reliability and, thus, safety." The article's headline: "It Is Not a Private Matter...
...week, in cash, each Sunday, payday. The lowest-level pay is $75 a week. Seventy-five, incidentally, is what the butt of the ancient joke, the kid who tidies after the elephants, receives. It may be the arts, but at Carson & Barnes it means disposing of twelve fragrant cubic yards a day. James K. Judkins, general manager of the circus, started this...