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There is no greater miracle in all of biology than the nine-month journey that begins with a fertilized egg and culminates in the birth of a tiny human being. From the moment the egg and sperm unite, an ancient and astonishingly intricate ballet unfolds. The still microscopic sphere divides into two, then four, then eight parts. Soon after, individual cells begin an extraordinary trek across this globe of living matter. Some dive deep into the core, where < they give rise to the intestinal tract. Others bunch along the surface, forming a hollow tube -- one end of which buds into...
...make a miniaturized bomb with as little as 6 lbs. of bomb-grade plutonium-239, a beginner could hope to produce only a much larger, cruder device from his 18 lbs. The fissionable metal for a bomb core has to be melted down and fashioned into a virtually perfect sphere about the size of a tennis ball -- called a pit -- a tricky process that takes a well- equipped nuclear laboratory. To make the bomb reach critical mass and set off a chain reaction -- nuclear fission -- you have to make the sphere implode in on itself. That requires a bang from...
...violence. Troops trained to fight are more likely to batter children than their uniformed colleagues in noncombat jobs, according to a 1979 study of 985 cases of child abuse among Air Force personnel by the University of New Hampshire. "There's a spillover from what one does in one sphere of life in one role to what one does in other roles," says Murray Straus, a University of New Hampshire family-violence expert who worked on the study. "If you're in an occupation whose business is killing, it legitimizes violence...
...19th century, women were just in thedomestic sphere," said Sara S. Song '96, "Only themore recent thinkers address women and theirstatus in society...
...balls as well, scaring off the poor youngsters. I kid you not--in the bottom of the sixth, with the score 2-1, a Northeastern player fouled a pitch back into the stands to the right of home plate. One ambitious youngster proceeded to run after the sphere...