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...species was on the earth a million years before it numbered 1 billion. That was in 1800. It took only 130 years to reach the second billion, 30 years to reach the third, 15 the fourth, 12 the fifth. The good news is that a graph of this exponential growth projected into the future forms an S curve, taking off slowly, then rising sharply, but eventually flattening out. Fertility rates -- the average number of children per woman -- have declined dramatically. In part that is because of severe limits on family size in the most populous country, China...
...roller-coaster career curve is hardly unique. With the exception of a macho-arts maven like Steven Seagal, whose films routinely pick up an easy $40 million, nearly every modern star's box-office graph zigzags as wildly as an Axl Rose delta gram. Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood have dominated movies for a quarter-century, but their latest pictures have played in empty theaters. Robert De Niro, the most admired actor in films, went a decade after The Deer Hunter (1978) without a hit. Then he appeared in three commercial successes: GoodFellas, Awakenings, Backdraft. When Bruce Willis flexed...
...ride down has been almost as steep as the climb up. In 1990 alone, share prices in both funds have dropped more than 30% (see graph). Even on a long- term basis, the Fund for Income and the High Yield Fund are among the industry's worst performers. Benalder Bayse Jr., who from 1985 to 1989 ran both funds, testified with immunity at Milken's presentencing hearing that a Milken crony, Roy Johnson, helped him land what he described as a "lucrative job" at First Investors. Thereafter, according to Bayse, Johnson funneled junk bonds to him, both for the mutual...
Garsd said the study included a graph of sulfuric acid levels that reported some years' levels at one-tenth of their correct magnitudes...
...surely as the Ghost of Christmas Future saved Scrooge by rattling the miser's tight soul until it cracked. A satellite photograph is technology, and so are the differential equations spinning inside a Cray supercomputer. There is technology in the wobbly rising trace on a piece of graph paper. There is technology in a handful of numbers...