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...pulsars, the superdense cinders left over when stars explode. Hulse and Taylor were first to find a double pulsar, a pair of objects whirling around each other in tight formation. Einstein's theory decreed that two such heavy bodies orbiting each other should give off gravity waves, which would drain off energy and cause the objects to come together eventually. Sure though, the pulsars are approaching each other at a rate of about 1 mm a year...
...greedy corporate honchos and foreign lobbyists. So one-sided did the argument seem that it began to produce "a giant sucking sound," not of American jobs flowing to Mexico, as Ross Perot swears will happen under NAFTA, but of congressional support for the trade pact going down the drain...
Around her people fill their jugs and bottles, trying to carry enough water home to get through the day. Every drain spout in the city has a collection bucket under it, and when rains come, the buckets are jealously guarded by old men and women grateful for water that does not have to be dragged up the city's steep hills. "It is all we do. We look for water. We look for wood. We try to feed the family, and then we begin the process all over again," says one woman who has struggled up the embankment with...
...effect is that an increasingly pent-up river rises higher, moves faster downstream, and is more prone to back up like a clogged drain, increasing the pressure on unfortified areas. "The water has to go somewhere," says aquatic ecologist Richard Sparks of the Illinois Natural History Survey, "and if we don't allow it to spread out, the only direction...
...conflicting shades of emotion. On World, he sounds almost wistful as he sings, "It may well be too late/ But I've no passion for this hate." On Special, the band's acerbic side surfaces briefly as Sumner sneers, "It was so special/ It was like water down the drain...