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...broke the critics' back. Not being able to satisfy the critics, Anderson decided to satisfy himself instead. And now, eight months later. Anderson has left his "retirement" with a recognition that aggression is man's most predominant drive. His deliberations on this subject were set to music, forming the nucleus of Jethro Tull's latest album, War Child...
...living cell is so tiny that it usually can be seen only with the aid of a microscope; yet within this basic unit of life exists an extraordinarily intricate chemical plant. In the cell's nucleus alone, scientists have identified more than 100 distinct chemical reactions that occur as the cell takes in food, grows and reproduces itself. Five years ago, Edward J. Davison, a computer specialist at the University of Toronto, began to translate these complex processes into a series of equations that were in effect a mathematical model of the nucleus of a cell. Now, having finally...
...plutonium). The Berkeley scientists used a newly beefed-up particle accelerator called Super-HILAC (for heavy ion linear accelerator) to send nuclei of oxygen atoms barreling into another artificial element, californium. As occasional collisions occurred between the oxygen and californium nuclei, they fused and formed the heavier nucleus of element 106-but not for long. Like most artificial elements, No. 106 is extremely unstable. It has a half-life of only nine-tenths of a second-that is, half of its atoms will break apart into simpler atoms in that brief span of time. Thus the substance quickly decayed into...
...opposed to the 92 natural elements, which range in complexity from hydrogen-with one proton in its nucleus-to uranium, with...
...contacts and the nucleus of a campaign organization. Like his senior colleague, Howard Baker, he is a possible contender for the 1976 Republican vice-presidential nomination...