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Werner Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty states that no one can predict the exact behavior of even a single atomic particle. Heisenberg might have appreciated the 1980 Winter Olympics. The Lake Placid Games have developed into a sort of festival of life's unpredictability. No one knows whether they will be the last Olympics of the modern era; international politics will settle that. A similar uncertainty hung like fog over the frozen spectators; none of them knew whether they would ever find a bus to carry them away from a darkening mountain to warmth again. Lake Placid...
...past energy-overcharge settlements, the Government did not publicly spell out the exact allegations against Amoco. It is believed that the DOE audit of the company's books revealed at least $100 million in excess selling prices. The remainder of the $690 million settlement resulted from both alleged overcharging and forbidden bookkeeping practices that enabled the company to run up costs faster than permitted...
...biologists have identified 27 kinds of parthenogenetic lizards-all-female species that lay eggs to produce exact genetic copies of the mother. On field trips in Arizona and Colorado, a team of researchers headed by Psychobiologist David Crews found that four of these species engage in mock male-female...
...Crimson the luxury of a victory on a mediocre performance. No love lost today: in the Lions's (4-4 Ivy) 85-63 victory against the Crimson in New York, the home bench acted mighty uncharitably and coach Frank McLaughlin has vowed to beat those doggone creeps (not his exact words by any means...
Every athlete feels the exact instant of no return: the body is then irrevocably committed; it moves with a concentration so fierce as to be almost abstract. Governments rarely achieve such purity of action. Nonetheless, by last week the U.S. had lumberingly launched the great weight of its foreign policy well past the point of second thoughts, on a course aimed at a boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics. It is a difficult maneuver; it could end by destroying the modern Olympic Games...