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Laurence did not entirely concur with this prediction, even though it came from Einstein. He has the scientist's habit of storing odd bits of information until they mesh, and by 1939 a pattern had begun to form. Routinely covering a scientific meeting at Columbia University that year, he carefully noted the heavy concentration of nuclear physicists and repeated allusions to "chain reaction," a phrase that meant little to him at the time. But by the following May, a story of his gave Times readers an advance look at the awesome energy packed into an isotope of uranium called...
...proliferation of firearms and the habit of carrying them...
...surprise was the importance of the age at which a smoker picks up the habit. In the 40-69 age bracket, the death rate of men who started smoking after 25 was 1.42 times that of nonsmokers; among those who had begun as striplings under 15, it was 2.29 times as high. The higher death rate can be traced, said Dr. Hammond, to three underlying factors: 1) precocious smokers tend to inhale more deeply, 2) they smoke more cigarettes a day, and 3) by the time they reach middle age, they have been smoking for many more years...
Whatever he had read, Khari R. Baghdelleh had obviously not understood it. And no reasonable man would suspect the U.S. of joining South Africa in any international hanky-panky. Still, rumors about atomic weaponry have a habit of swelling rapidly into dangerous controversies. U.S. Representative to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson wasted no time in pointing out that the only scientific experiment now scheduled to involve both the U.S. and South Africa has nothing to do with bombs: it will be a delicate and determined effort to detect some elusive particles of matter...
...habit of treating American history like a stage production further discredits the book's judgments. Foreshadowing well-known historical events is thin entertainment and thinner history; passing gradiose sentences from a century-high pedestal of hindsight is bad technique and bad historical explanation. Two Roads does both too often. For example, it was "not only unnecessary but foolish" for Douglas backers to allow a change of procedure at the 1860 Democratic convention. At the beginning of 1860, 32 million "extras" stood behind the "odd stellar assortment" of political players in the sectional drama. And no moderate argument had "one-tenth...