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Wall Street and Fort Knox are still there, of course, but their mystique is fading fast. Not even James Bond's nemesis Auric Goldfinger would try to rob the fort anymore; bullion is in a two-decade-long slump. Nowadays, real money doesn't glitter or clink. It blinks across...
WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF US: Scientists once spent a lot of time explaining why plastic did not conduct electricity. Heege, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa, however, won their Nobel for proving that plastics (or polymers) can be manipulated into a conductive state. The Nobel judges call the discovery critical...
Abortion-rights advocates heard such horror stories and in 1993 filed a lawsuit, arguing that because the women didn't consent to the searches and police had no warrants for them, they were unconstitutional. In January 1994 the advocates also filed a complaint with the National Institutes of Health, contending...
Not long ago, the Gulfport school district in Mississippi couldn't find enough substitute teachers. Principals spent half the day calling around to hire as many as 60 teachers for the district's 11 schools. Superintendent Carlos Hicks asked the local office of Kelly Services to help--and now the...
Every parent needs to make up his or her own mind, of course, and in turn they need to be able to live with themselves. But in a country where everyone moans about the violence saturating our television and movie screens, it seems awfully hypocritical for spank-happy parents to...