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Between 1750 and 1850, the population of Europe doubled. The population might have increased by considerably more had certain checks on its growth been absent. Of course the major checks were a variety of natural human phenomena: famine, disease and war. And when Malthus warned that population growth would proceed at a much greater pace than the means of subsistence, he cited these as the otherwise absent limiting forces...
...said, a phenomenon that had grown out of some Palestinians' frustration at the world's refusal "to see their just cause and understand their problem." Nasser added, in what may have been his final words on the subject: "As a Palestinian leader, I do not encourage such phenomena. We have our own strategy, and I believe that the Black September movement will never dominate the resistance. But I wonder if we can stop it from growing if the whole world is going to continue turning its back on the Palestinians...
...study a curious side effect. At times the radio signals were followed by mysterious echoes that were picked up as many as 15 seconds after the original transmissions. Indeed, the delays were so long that they could not be readily attributed to atmospheric quirks, magnetic storms or other natural phenomena. To this day, scientists have been unable to solve the mystery of the echoes...
There are far more interesting phenomena that are happening in Cambridge 200,000 times. One thinks of Julia Child's 200,000th crepe suzette, or John Finlev's 200,000th letter of recommendation, or Harry Parker' 200,000th ce-cold morning on the river, or B and G's 200,000th lost man-hour, or ex-Dean Dunlop's 200,000th committee meeting--each must be nearing the mark about now. Far more interesting. John Paul Russo Assistant Professor of English
Mitchell, who has retired from the astronaut corps and set up his own foundation to investigate psychic phenomena, eagerly confirmed some of the rumors during an interview last month with TIME. "I can assure you," he said, "that from [Charles] Anderson down, SRI views Uri Geller as legitimate. They find the results valid and are ready to stand on them." Said President Anderson last week: "Mr. Mitchell does not speak for SRI, and indeed the statement is misleading. Mr. Geller was provided to us as a subject for experimentation. Measurements were made in our laboratories, and the work will stand...