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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Siberia: The Endless Horizon" is a study of the land that occupies more than one-tenth of the earth's solid surface...
...One-Tenth of a Cent
...stamps are worth approximately one-tenth of ancent each...
Thousands of Bits. Not only do the crystals have the advantage of simplicity of operation, but they could also be extremely compact computer components. In a recent demonstration at their Murray Hill, N.J., headquarters, the Bell scientists showed that a thin crystal, only one-tenth of an inch square, could carry 10,000 bits of information. Even the tiniest conventional computer circuitry, explained Bell Labs Vice President Jack A. Morton, is able to achieve only 10% of that density. In addition, the crystals need just a fraction of the power required by ordinary computers...
Biological Predestiny. Men are killing off sperm whales at the rate of 25,000 a year, perhaps one-tenth of the total stock, and Dr. Scheffer is indignant at the profligacy and lack of "humaneness" with which this is done. But it is the whale's biological predestiny that saddens him most. Nature seems to have no future plans for the whale -an animal with beguiling potential yet lacking the indispensable potential to evolve beyond itself...