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...Rapids, Minn., say that their highest monthly electricity bill, in subzero January, came to $91-which included not only heating but also power for all their household appliances. The Evenstas' house is mainly heated by a wood-burning furnace backed up by a heat pump, plus a fireplace. Norm and Sirleen Ghigleri, whose Cathedralite dome nestles in California's Santa Cruz hills, reported that their January electricity bill was $41.56, while neighbors complained of paying $125 and more for power...
...third of the schedule remaining were just three games short of last season's victory total. It was also the worst of times. Pistons players were at Coach Herb Brown's throat, and at one point a player actually attacked him. Locker-room arguments were the norm; the bench had become a place to sulk, not sit. Detroit players surely lead the league in fines and angry demands to be traded somewhere, anywhere...
Both the Educational Testing Service and American College Testing Program are hurrying into the minimal competency testing field. Yet some officials are leery of using standardized exams for fear the norm would not reflect realistic competencies for minority students-part of the continuing debate in U.S. society over achievement v. entitlement, and whether the goals of equality require double standards in many areas of opportunity...
...Types of natural selection. When an organism grows continuously in a relatively constant environment natural selection has a stabilizing effect, weeding out the variants that deviate too far in any direction from the well adapted norm. But when the environment is changed the same basic process of natural selection has a diversifying effect: the new circumstances select for the preferential survival and reproduction of variants with increased fitness for those circumstances. This Darwinian process explains a phenomenon that confused early workers: when pathogenic bacterial strains are isolated from infected hosts and then repeatedly transferred in artificial culture media they often...
...OBSOLESCENCE. For most of human history, the norm had been continuity. Change was news. Daily-lives were governed by tradition. The most valued works were the oldest...