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...Manchester astronomers to focus on one particular pulsar -- and convinced them that a planet whirled around it. The pulsar spins on its axis three times a second, raking the earth with a beam of radio waves each time. But, says Lyne, periodically "the pulses would arrive about one- hundredth of a second earlier than they should, and then, three months later, they would be one-hundredth of a second later...
...wire, it generates an electromagnetic field that exerts forces on surrounding objects. For many years, scientists dismissed any suggestion that such forces might be harmful, primarily because they are so extraordinarily weak. The ELF magnetic field generated by a video terminal measures only a few milligauss, or about one- hundredth the strength of the earth's own magnetic field. The electric fields surrounding a power line can be as high as 10 kilovolts per meter, but the corresponding field induced in human cells will be only about 1 millivolt per meter. This is far less than the electric fields that...
...Charles Stuart's hate campaign. Even the national media were all too eager to sensationalize the killing of a white pregnant woman and her unborn child by a "savage" Black. Other murders that day, such as the slaying of James Moody, a Black man, did not receive one one-hundredth the press coverage...
...that citizens of the wealthier society are better off "on average." Each of us has only one life to live, and there is no evening-out process that can allow us, the 99 comfortable members of the Pretty-Good Society, to justify our choice to the wretched hundredth, or to ignore the connection between our wealth and that individual's poverty. Again, the real-world intuition behind Rawls' logic should be clear. When was the last time you looked a homeless person...
...four-day auction brought in more than $800,000. The FSLIC, which currently holds $9.6 billion in assets seized from failed thrifts, has raised more than $300 million this year by selling off their property. That comes to roughly one five-hundredth of what the S & L bailout will cost U.S. taxpayers in the next ten years...