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Skeptical eyebrows were raised in 1985 when three chemists reported that they had stumbled onto a new form of molecular carbon that they believed, but could not prove, had the shape of a soccer ball. Nobody is skeptical anymore. Not only has their theory been confirmed, but it has blossomed into a thriving branch of research. And last week that trio of chemists--Harold Kroto from Britain's University of Sussex, and Robert Curl and Richard Smalley from Rice University in Houston--were rewarded for their work with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
...only our offense that was in top shape," sophomore midfielder Armando Petruccelli said. "[Junior back] John Vrionis shut out their best player. It could have been a much uglier game if our defense hadn't played well...
...been an agile phone warrior, and there are few signs that the breakup has put the core business into better shape to meet cutthroat competition. Anyone turning on a radio or TV, answering the phone or picking up the mail these days has to fend off endless pleas from AT&T and competitors--MCI and Sprint are the biggest--to switch his or her long-distance calls from one carrier to another. Or pleas not to switch. Or to switch back...
...Nobody gets terribly bent out of shape about results now, except for the players," Fish said...
While the evidence for the decline of reefs is based on observations of only a few hundred reefs out of uncounted thousands, scientists around the world are becoming increasingly alarmed. Already, some experts estimate, 10% of the earth's reefs have been mortally wounded. Thirty percent are in critical shape and may die within the next 10 to 20 years. And an additional 30% are coming under such sustained attack that they may perish by the year 2050. "I used to be reluctant to say the sky was falling," says paleobiologist Jeremy Jackson of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute near...