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...half crown, which is worth 35?; and next to the stone cartwheels used for coins on the Pacific island of Yap, they are almost certainly the world's heaviest. Since the lowest-value folding money is the 10-shilling note, which has a U.S. value of $1.40, Britons stagger under the weight of small change they must carry; the four pennies needed to make a phone call alone weigh...
...China's leaders these days no longer talk of the great leap forward, but of the "law of undulating progress." It means, presumably, that every economic leap is inevitably followed by a backward stagger. Most of China's hapless millions were wondering when the staggering would stop and the leaps begin...
Vampire for Hire. Merely to contemplate what Yeats seriously believed in is enough to stagger the modern reader. He had, or vowed he had, complete faith in ghosts, fairies, magic, table rapping and spiritualism. He attended seances religiously, and once claimed to have seen a man in black and a hunchbacked woman fashion human flesh out of mysterious chemicals. At another séance, at which the spirits became very annoyed, witnesses reported that "Willie Yeats was banging his head on the table as though he had a fit, muttering to himself." Yeats sometimes primed the medium via telepathy...
...town they try to board a streetcar; no wardrobe closets allowed. They try to make friends with a girl; when the wardrobe comes, she goes. They walk into a restaurant; sorry, no diners with closets. They try to rent a hotel room; already has wardrobes. Wearily they stagger on, wondering what sort of world has no room for people with wardrobe closets...
...achieve understanding of this system would be to find the exact structure of DNA, including the magical code. But when it is considered that the DNA molecules in human cells may have something like a million atoms all linked and twisted in a special way, the difficulties stagger imagination. So the attack on the molecules of life is mounted in other, more indirect ways. One approach is through genetics: learning about the chemistry of reproduction of small and comparatively simple organisms like molds. Another approach is through X-ray studies of proteins, with the X rays scattering in patterns...