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...Companion turned out to be only about 25,000 miles in diameter, and into this comparatively modest volume the star's whole sunlike mass had to be crammed. The astronomers' amazing conclusion: the Companion of Sirius is made of material that weighs 2,000 lbs. per cubic inch...
...Luyten does not know definitely the size or mass of his latest white dwarf, but he believes that it weighs at least ten tons, or 20,000 lbs., per cubic inch. It could conceivably weigh as much as 1,000 tons per cubic inch, in which case a chunk of star no bigger than a grapefruit would weigh more than the 84,000-ton Queen Elizabeth...
...Apportioned between the halves of the dividing cells, the duplicated DNA molecules determine whether the new individuals will be men or muskrats, pine trees or pineapples. The hereditary characteristics of the next human generation-of about three billion people-will be controlled by one fifteen-thousandth of a cubic inch...
...skyscraper city sprung metropolis-size from a broad plateau where, just 43 months ago, Kubitschek recalls, "there was only solitude and a jaguar screaming in the night." It was thrown up at a hang-the-cost speed that wrenched the whole country's economy. Forty-five million cubic meters of red earth were ripped out by a $50 million army of machines. The final price tag will top Brazil's annual budget...
...Canadian Petroleum Association predicted that the new markets would spur a $6.8 billion oil and gas development in Alberta, British Columbia and the untapped Canadian North in the next decade. The Energy Board estimated that consumption, in Canada and by export, will have totaled 45.6 trillion cubic feet by 1990-when Canada will still have at least that much left in the ground...