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Meanwhile, in Philadelphia. Quaker coach Ted Nash maintains he has enough baling wire and chewing gum to hold together the dredged up remains of the Burk and plans to use this experimental red cedar shell Saturday...
There are psychological advantages too. "You feel your whole psyche changing when you wear one," says K.T. "We haven't had backaches or varicose veins, but we've developed some strange cravings." Adds Linda: "I've stopped chewing gum. A Madonna figure shouldn't chew gum." The Pregnancy Puff also seems to affect the beholder. "People think we're pregnant and tell us how great our complexions look," explains K.T. "They tell us we glow. And maybe we do, because we have this funny secret...
...communes, factories and other organized groups). But China is ahead of the Russians in some material areas, especially those not requiring modern, heavy industry. The quality and variety of many consumer goods in Shanghai's Number One Department Store exceed that found in Moscow's massive GUM. Food (a Chinese fixation) seems to be more plentiful than in the Soviet Union, especially fresh vegetables, meat and poultry. At dusk, the outskirts of Shanghai begin to look like one vast, endless vegetable market as peasants, by barge and handcart, bring their harvests to market...
...down-to-earth matters, but a recent issue contains an appeal that reaches rather far out. In a letter to the magazine, Astronomers John C. Brandt, Stephen P. Maran and Theodore Stecher ask archaeologists for help in determining the age of a giant celestial gas cloud. Known as the Gum Nebula, the cloud has been attracting more than usual attention among astronomers. At its center, some 1,500 light-years away from earth, they have discovered a pulsar -a neutron star that emits regularly spaced radio signals. What possible information could archaeologists offer? Quite a bit, the astronomers explain. Both...
...Gum Nebula supernova occurred much earlier-about 9000 B.C., according to estimates based on the current signal rate of Gum's pulsar. The sudden and brief appearance at that time of what seemed to be a new and brightly glowing star-probably as luminous as a quarter moon and visible even during full daylight-may have sufficiently moved a primitive sky-gazer to scrawl or carve his impressions on a cave wall. And if an archaeologist should ever find such a drawing, its age could be determined by using radioactive "clocks" and other dating methods on other objects...