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...they're not certain what is causing the blasts, astronomers attending last week's conference have some ideas. When ordinary stars burn out, they may become neutron stars, dense bodies with gravity fields so powerful that a marshmallow falling into one would release as much energy as a thousand hydrogen bombs. If two of these bodies began orbiting each other, they would ultimately collide, leading to titanic gamma-ray blasts. Other researchers believe the bursts are due to especially large supernovas, great stellar outbursts called hypernovas...
...renamed. Maybe the dietary-supplements folks think Sammy sounds sexier than Sam.) Turns out that SAM or SAMe plays a pivotal role in hundreds of biochemical reactions in the body. It's a methyl donor, meaning that it can attach a molecule made of one carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms to various proteins, lipids and even snippets of DNA. Such methylation reactions are important in the production of many critical substances, including neurotransmitters in the brain and enzymes that help repair joints and the liver...
...Prohibition --Suntans --Leisure suits --New Math --The Blacklist --Comeback Tours --Asbestos --The Designated-Hitter Rule --Barney --Crystal Pepsi --New Coke --Woody Allen, Paterfamilias --DDT --Sailing the Exxon Valdez into Prince William Sound --The Eight-Track Tape --Cryogenics --The Treaty of Versailles --Smell-O-Vision --Chain E-Mail --Hydrogen-Filled Blimps --Staffing the White House with Interns During the Government Shutdown --Hair Club for Men --Bush's Choice of Quayle --Promoting Kim Philby --Message T Shirts --Videophones --Spray-on Hair --Infomercials --The Spruce Goose --Theme Restaurants --Letting Oliver North Near a Shredder --Not Bombing the Fuel Tanks at Pearl Harbor --Hooked...
...often demonstrated physics experiments--"miracles I could understand"--to him as a child. At Moscow University in the 1940s, Sakharov was tabbed as one of the U.S.S.R.'s brightest young minds. After earning his doctorate, he was sent to a top-secret installation to spearhead the development of the hydrogen bomb. By 1953 the Soviets had detonated one. It was "the most terrible weapon in human history," Sakharov later wrote. Yet he felt that by building the H-bomb, "I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance of power...
...explodes a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, in the South Pacific...