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...manner without virtually ensuring a nuclear war, whether through accident, miscalculation, or design. In this regard it is foolish to become involved in a numbers game concerning the quantity of missiles and warheads in the possession of each super-power. The numbers are already so vast they exceed any realm of reason: thus every new weapon added to either stockpile makes all of us less secure...
...early as the 6th century, in the sub-Sahara, Moorish merchants routinely traded salt ounce for ounce for gold. In Abyssinia, slabs of rock salt, called 'amôlés, became coin of the realm. Each one was about ten inches long and two inches thick. Cakes of salt were also used as money in other areas of central Africa...
...Stijl was not far from a religious movement-Dutch Calvinist piety in the realm of art. Its name, first used as the title of the group's magazine when Van Doesburg started it in 1917, and later transferred to the artists themselves, meant The Style-the last one, the one and only, suggesting some final mutation of art and thus the end of art history itself...
Partly out of rebellion and partly out of personal style, Reese refuses to follow his sport to the realm of scientific precision. He is a noted non-practicer who doesn't believe in conditioning--it's only his competitiveness that gets him through...
...early '60s. Kafatos said Williams' lab provided a "stimulating meeting place" in which more and more undergraduates became involved. In his lab. Kafatos added, Williams constantly "established new fields and answers to old questions." With Williams "you could talk about ideas in any subject in the intellectual realm." Kafatos stressed...