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Every year each female mussel produces approximately 30,000 eggs. When fertilized, these eggs hatch into microscopic larvae that swirl with the current. Eventually the larvae find a surface to their liking and settle down, mooring themselves with sticky, hairlike threads called byssuses. They reach sexual maturity in massive colonies that pack as many mussels into a square meter as there are inhabitants in a midsize town...
...formed a partnership with Sun and made a number of minor acquisitions, including Paradyne, a modem maker, and Istel, which customizes computer systems. But AT&T never managed to capture more than 3% of the market, and losses have mounted to as much as $3 billion. Rumors began to swirl about a possible merger as a quick fix. Among the known targets: EDS, Sperry, Digital Equipment, Wang and Data General...
This month The Nutcracker will swirl into cities all around the country. Even the plainest staging will boast Tchaikovsky's rapturous score, the party scene's gentle lesson in golden-rule manners and, for little girls, the chance to dress up in winter finery. The New York City Ballet will have George Balanchine's exquisitely aristocratic Russian version (where dance aficionados often get their first chance to see new corps members perform solos). Across the river in Brooklyn, a new offshoot of the Bolshoi Ballet will show off its own simpler production. The Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle will feature...
...found it exciting not only to reflect on the varied and often controversial currents that swirl around women's daily lives, struggles and victories in America today, but also to look at the challenges that lie ahead. We consider that task highly important, and TIME is committed to pursuing it without stint in the months and years ahead. We hope you get as much satisfaction from reading this issue as we did from preparing...
...Soviet Union, the mismanagement of land around the Aral Sea has cut it off from its sources of water, causing the volume of the once giant lake to shrink by two-thirds in 30 years. Now storms of salt and pesticides swirl up from the receding shoreline, contaminating the land and afflicting millions of Uzbeks with gastritis, typhoid and throat cancer. In Beijing, one-third of the city's wells have gone dry, and the water table drops by as much as 2 meters (2.2 yards) a year. In the Western U.S., four years of drought have left municipalities...