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JEWS AND ARABS ARE HAVING SUCH A TOUGH TIME living together that the Israeli government has decided to keep them apart as much as possible. Having already closed off the Gaza Strip in response to a worsening spiral of attacks and counterattacks, authorities have forbidden Palestinians in the West Bank to enter Israel. The twin moves kept more than 100,000 Palestinians from reaching their jobs in Israel, at an estimated cost in lost earnings of $2.6 million daily...
...laboratory's lofty bell tower is not exempt. Each of its four sides is labeled with a letter representing one of the four nucleotides that constitute DNA's code letters: A, T, C and G. And visible through arches in each of the tower sides is a central staircase -- spiral, of course. As an added touch, Watson and several of his guests who had investigated DNA's handmaiden, RNA, in the later 1950s wore their RNA Tie Club ties, each bearing the image of the single-strand molecule...
...sports: National Football League team owners and players successfully negotiating a new labor-and-salary agreement that satisfied both sides. The accord for the first time permits unrestricted free agency for players after five seasons and contains a team salary cap for owners, staving off the kind of spending spiral that has weakened professional baseball. The deal also signifies something invaluable to sports fans: no more strike fears. If only pro baseball's bickering, greed- riddled players and owners could function this smoothly...
...changed over the past 20 years as astronomers became convinced that dark matter not only exists but exists in great quantity. Much of the evidence comes from the kinds of motions Zwicky noted and also from the mysteriously rapid rotation rates of individual star systems, particularly those known as spiral galaxies. Another clue, uncovered largely by AT&T Bell Laboratories astrophysicist J. Anthony Tyson, is the bending of light from distant galaxies. The light is presumably distorted by the gravitational pull of invisible matter...
This delicate balance always threatens to tip, and when it does, cities can | spiral into an anarchy that defies all attempts at reversal. From Belfast, where religious hatred spawns terror, to Los Angeles, where the acquittal of four white policemen accused of beating a black motorist triggered last April's rampage of looting and arson, city dwellers have paid a horrible price when ethnic and political tensions boiled to the surface. When fighting began in Beirut in 1974, merchants spoke confidently of a return to normality within months. Few Lebanese expected that strife would still rule their lives 18 years...