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MOST BACTERIA HAVE THE DECENCY TO BE MICROscopic. Epulopiscium fishelsoni is not among them. The newly identified one-celled macro-microorganism, which lives harmlessly in the intestine of the Red Sea-dwelling brown surgeonfish, is a full fiftieth of an inch long, large enough to be seen with the naked eye. Described in the current Nature, it is a million times as massive as the bacteria that inhabit the human...
...complex device called an interferometer, which was used to measure the curve of the mirror's surface. They found that the instrument had been assembled incorrectly and that the mistake matched the error calculated by the other team: Hubble's main mirror was deformed by less than one-fiftieth the thickness of a human hair...
...recently bought a copy of the Fiftieth Anniversary Report of the Harvard College Class of 1892 in a used bookstore. We paid a dollar for the book, a compilation of 191 autobiographical sketches, called "Class Lives," which are each about two pages long. We feel a tenuous connection with these men, perhaps like you'd feel with a dead great aunt. Or a major league baseball player who went to your high school. Or maybe the guy buried next to your mother's grave. It's kind of morbid...
HARVARD AND YALE HAVE MET for the fiftieth time in a football game. A crowd of 60,000 persons is dispersing in small, excited groups which bear with them the spirit of a rivalry firmly based on friendship...
...freckled skin that reddens and burns easily, blisters and peels. Caucasians with dark hair and eyes and more even pigmentation, as well as Hispanics and Asians, are somewhat less susceptible, and blacks rarely develop either carcinomas or melanomas. The rate of melanoma among blacks, while increasing, is only one-fiftieth that of whites...