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...insect family, says Dr. Hutchins, is the largest of the animal kingdom. It includes nearly a million species that range in habitat from Antarctic snows to petroleum pools, and vary in size from a fairy fly, which measures about one-hundredth of an inch, to an African goliath beetle, which weighs up to 3.4 oz. and walks around eating bananas, which it peels with its snout...
...overtime to deal with the implications of Schmidt's discoveries. How can such relatively small bodies generate enough light to be seen billions of light-years away? Where did the energy come from? Early observations suggested that the quasars were only a fifth or as little as a hundredth the size of an average galaxy, which is about 100,000 light-years in diameter. Yet the quasars' light is as much as 100 times more brilliant than light from an ordinary galaxy-despite all of its 100 billion glowing stars-that is the same distance away...
Russian Scientist Vladimir Kotelnikov checked and rechecked the calclations, but the answer remained essentially the same: between March 1963 and October 1965, the rotation of the earth slowed down so much that the average day lengthened by 1.6 milliseconds-or about one six-hundredth of a second. The result was "extremely unexpected," a surprised Kotelnikov told the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The length of a day had increased only one millisecond (one-thousandth of a second) during the previous 120 years...
...hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Salvation Army this year and General William Booth would be well pleased with the quality of Harvard's dramatic tributes. First Steve Kaplan's Guys and Dolls, and now Michael Erhardt's Major Barbara, have done well by the order of the tambourine...
...Sean F. Mullan begins with a simple injection of anesthetic into the side of the neck, just below the skull-one place where the spinal cord and its multiplex nerve cables are not completely encased in bone. Then he inserts a hollow, stainless-steel needle, only one hundredth of an inch in diameter, and guides the needle toward the nerves he wants to deaden with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms...