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...BALL. A metal sphere just over two feet in diameter was placed at the bottom of a long, spiral track. The ball moved, as if by magic, slowly and smoothly up the perilous incline. Almost 24 feet in the air, the ball stopped . . . A pistol shot rang out, and hands holding flags emerged through holes in the ball...
...growing number of people on the globe is a problem as urgent as the Cold War once was, Wirth said. The population spiral will increase the gap between the rich and poor and drain the earth's resources, he said...
...unlikely that the coming semester will see Harvard define a grand New Joke Order. Likely the campus will wallow in a hellish Armageddon of humor gone wrong. How far out of control will this epidemic of pranks spiral? How many must die, or at least get really annoyed, before University Hall steps in? Pranks have been taken out of the hands of professionals and taken up by an unpredictable mob. Beware, Harvard, the minute hand on the Doomsday clock is ticking. Oh, yes, it is ticking...
...style reform with mandatory price restraints can tackle the job in the long run. "Medical inflation slowed in the late 1970s just in time to defeat a previous effort at cost containment," recalls Laura Tyson, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. "Later on, prices resumed their former upward spiral...
This thread of life, of course, is deoxyribonucleic acid, the spiral- staircase-shape molecule found in the nucleus of cells. Scientists have known since 1952 that DNA is the basic stuff of heredity. They've known its chemical structure since 1953. They know that human DNA acts like a biological computer program some 3 billion bits long that spells out the instructions for making proteins, the basic building blocks of life...