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Once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Trieste was annexed by Italy after World War I; after World War II it became the object of a prolonged tug of war between Italy and Yugoslavia, whose partisans had participated in the Allied capture of the region. In 1954, however, a practical accommodation was reached. Italy was granted provisional control over the northern section of the 287-sq.-mi. territory. Called Zone A, it included the city of Trieste (pop. 270,000), which is predominantly Italian but has a large Slovene minority. The rest of the area, Zone B, was kept provisionally...
...life. Eventually, winds, water and mountain-building eradicated or covered virtually all geological traces of the planet's violent beginnings. In contrast, the moon has remained largely unchanged since its last burst of volcanism, disturbed only by an occasional meteorite or a periodic moonquake (caused by the gravitational tug of the earth or sun as the moon's lopsided orbit occasionally brings the moon closer to them...
Hungry Pet. For starters, the scientists recently told the New York Academy of Sciences, one of the black holes would have to be located. For example, a small, unaccountable gravitational tug on a spacecraft might be a good indication that one was near...
...slogans and collective ambitions in simple, legendary stories, and the way the values of the stories made the anti-fascist slogans make sense, like Azdak's Solomon-like decision that Grusha keeps the governor's child because she won't try to pull him from a circle in a tug-of-war with the governor's ambitious widow. As a result, The Caucasian Chalk Circle has a traditional, tender, open quality that Brecht rarely allowed himself, and an archetypal quality that makes its hope seem universal, the natural birthright, sold again and again but somehow always recovered...
...decreasing speed; the outward flight of each galaxy is being slowed by the pull of gravity from the others. If that pull is strong enough, the galaxies will eventually be braked to a halt. Then they will begin falling back to crush together in a final cataclysm. If the tug of gravity is too weak, the universe will continue to expand forever...