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...they ask, if the charges differ by an infinitesimal amount, too small to measure with today's best laboratory instruments? One result, they answer, will be the expansion of the universe. If the difference is only two parts in 1 billion billion, the galaxies will be forced to flee from one another...
Nonetheless, the flight to the West continues. Increasingly, the refugees are members of the intellectual elite essential to the functioning of a modern state-teachers (3,400 in 1958), doctors (more than 850), scientists (375). Most refugees flee...
...down mercilessly, and birds of prey swooped in for unprecedented feasts. There are few baby monkeys or baboons-most have been eaten, some by their own species. The desperate monkeys gnaw the bark of their tree roosts and even attack the poisonous black mamba snake, from which they ordinarily flee in terror...
While the flood-fighting pace quickened in Terre Haute, the high water receded rapidly upstream at Peru, where a deluge poured over the top of a levee Wednesday night and forced 675 people to flee...
...those who wish to flee from metaphysics into naturalism, assistant professor Marshall Cohen will analyze Mill, Nietzsche, and Santayana (Phil. 139) in Emerson...