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...unceasingly at hundreds of miles per hour, sometimes spiraling into mammoth hurricanes that last for centuries and are big enough to swallow the Earth. And if this harsh world has any solid surface at all, it's buried under an atmosphere thousands of miles deep, crushed by pressures a thousandfold greater than those at the bottom of the deepest terrestrial sea. A second planet, circling the star 70 Virginis, in the constellation Virgo, is probably even less inviting: because it has more than six times the mass of Jupiter, weather conditions there could be even more extreme...
...exactly sure what causes these mental conditions, but both physical and psychological explanations have been suggested. "A woman is undergoing a tremendous hormonal upheaval around the time of childbirth," says Nancy Reame, a women's health researcher at the University of Michigan. During pregnancy, estrogen and progesterone increase a thousandfold, then abruptly drop to normal or sometimes below normal after birth, which may precipitate sudden emotional disorders. Breast feeding is also accompanied by major hormonal changes...
...founder of the Society of Jesus ("a Spanish soldier who gave up the ways of war for that path of love and peace"), and Mahatma Gandhi. The Indian apostle of nonviolence, Reagan recalled, had said, "If you approached people with trust and affection, you would have tenfold trust and thousandfold affection returned...
...reproduced and were covering the inside surfaces of the containers. This gave the researchers enough skin to grind down again to start skin cultures in several more flasks. Explains Green: "When the colonies are small, they double every 17 hours." Indeed, each original piece of skin was multiplied ten-thousandfold...
Ervin said that in recent years the government has abused its powers to collect personal information on individuals and that the introduction of computer data banks allows a "thousandfold increase in the ability of the government to store and disseminate information" on individuals...