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...Francisco attracts children to a place aptly named the Exploratorium. In Seattle kids can ride on a giant gyroscope to experience the principles of mechanical equilibrium, which kept the Gemini space capsule, conveniently on exhibit near by in a mockup, on target. In Jacksonville, a children's museum features a model of the ear, nose and throat canals large enough to crawl through. The Boston Children's Muse um has an area called Grandmother's Attic, where gold lame dresses and high-button shoes can be tried on. In Indianapolis, which last year became the site...
...breathe even half-clean air. The loss seems greater in California because there the expectations were so much greater than elsewhere. If the continent once seemed to tip west, allowing all things unattached to roll to the Golden State on the Pacific, it has by now regained its equilibrium. California has clearly lost the magic it once had, but it is not ready to concede that magic to any inheritors. Despite the state's export of so much of its culture and mores to the rest of the country, it may just be that the of California does...
...call the tsetse scourge [April 25]. If stupid men find the means of eradicating trypanosomiasis, even stupider men and their dumb cattle will destroy the remaining elephants, lions and tigers, who are naturally immune. And inexorably, the men will overpopulate and the cattle overgraze the land until a new equilibrium is reached. But the great wild animals will be extinct. One man's scourge is another man's blessing...
SECOND, WARNKE HAS advocated unilateral restraint in the development of new weapons that could destabilize the current equilibrium between the two superpowers. This position seems the product of an apparent dissatisfaction with the value of existing arms control agreements, which in Warnke's opinion became mere springboards for further defense spending. Weapons built as "bargaining chips" for arms control negotiations have a way of surviving, and they seem to encourage reciprocal Soviet developments rather than the victory of reason at the conference table. Warnke makes a strong case for unilateral restraint, arguing that our security may often be increased...
...Crimson offense never quite seemed to regain the equilibrium it showed in the first half with Honick and Hooft both scoring eight points and Steve Irion chipping in with six when play resumed...