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Modern Government does not run on military and office equipment alone. Through the warehouse come potter's wheels, musical instruments, looms, stretchers, record players, 50-lb. boxes of nails, humidity gauges, bottles of chemicals, screwdrivers and pliers of every shape and size, salt-tablet dispensers, ear slugs, potato peelers, X-ray film projectors, buckets of paint, faucets, even 59 forceps for delivering babies...
...cheaply produced tablet free from serious side-effects, dapsone has become the world's chief method of combating leprosy. Although the bacteria causing HD display increasing signs of developing resistance to the drug, dapsone remains an effective means of arresting the illness when a patient suffers from the pure-tuberculoid strain, a less-severe type of HD. Victims with this form of illness can usually expect to lead perfectly normal lives without any of the scars and deformities ordinarily associated with leprosy, if doctors diagnose the condition at an early stage...
...teaspoon of neutron-star stuff would weigh about a million tons, a human would be crushed to the thickness of a postage stamp, and the entire population of planet Earth, if shipped to a neutron star, would be compressed into a volume about the size of an aspirin tablet. Strange objects, these neutron stars they represent demonstrably non-terrestrial states of matter. Their abnormal properties are surpassed by only one other type of phenomenon--the black hole...
...assembled rather than in kit form. This year 100,000 Apple Us will be sold, vs 25,000 in 1978. Prices: from $1,195 for the basic model to $3,000 for a setup with all the trimmings, such as two ''floppy'' discs, a graphics tablet and a printer. Exults Apple's cofounder, Steven Jobs, a self-made engineer who is all of 23: ''We will sell more computers this year than IBM has in five...
...Meeting new people filled him with vague dread, especially if they were in a position to rebuff or contradict him. As was his habit before such appointments, Nixon was probably in an adjoining room settling his nerves and reviewing his remarks, no doubt jotted down on a yellow tablet that he never displayed to his visitors...