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...doing so, these two very junior scientific researchers at England's Cambridge University had beaten out some of the giants of biochemistry, including Caltech's future Nobel prizewinner, Linus Pauling. More important, in discovering DNA's now famous double-helical, or spiral-staircase, architecture, they also suggested how the magic molecule works: the two sides of the helix unzip, so that each can act as a template for making an exact copy of the original genetic material. Thus Watson and Crick not only described the three-dimensional geometry of DNA, which forms the genes in all living...
Other than that, the astronomer tosses off, his summer was uneventful: "A few papers on subjects like the cosmic distance scale in antiquity, and the discovery of the spiral shape of the Milky Way... a conference...
...change our military policy overnight. However, with new first strike weapons about to be deployed in Europe and research for such weapons going on here in Cambridge, it will set an example and a precedent for other cities to effectively say "No!" to first strike weapons and the deadly spiral of the arms race. This will pressure legislators to oppose military spending which would be of no economic benefit to their district. And it would pressure companies engaged in military work to consider more socially useful alternatives...
...only a few miles in diameter. A teaspoonful of its material weighs as much as 100 million tons, and the star's gravitational force is so strong that it pulls away a steady stream of gases, mostly hydrogen and helium, from its larger companion. As the gases spiral toward the neutron star, they heat up, reaching such high temperatures (up to 10 million°C) and densities that the atoms of hydrogen smash into each other and fuse. This causes a runaway thermonuclear explosion that spews a torrent of X rays. During the period of calm after the explosion...
...Gram told it was that all I she had ever had in life was kids and work and useless men and what she wanted, and had earned besides, was to be left alone." Time sweeps everything along in its great, slow spiral: Gram's farm, Uncle Dan's butcher shop, Celia's beauty. People and houses move for a while with the current, then drop away to be replaced by hazy afterimages-family gossip, family myth. This musing, brooding, backward-looking novel, the author's first, summons up scenes of middle-aged women huddling over coffee...