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...sure social networks serve many important functions that improve our lives, like reconnecting us with old friends and finding out if people we used??to date are still good-looking. And social networks all have messaging functions, which would be an excellent way to send information if no one had invented e-mail...
...produced no convincing alternatives. The anti-inflation plan of Carter and Co., based mostly on friendly persuasion, is so weak and ineffectual that even White House insiders mock it as "wishboning." That is a category of soft talk inferior even to the old "jawboning," which other Presidents used???with distinctly mixed results ?in the crusade to hold down wage and price rises...
...double helix emerged the secret of DNA's awesome powers. The banisters of the staircase were fashioned of long links of sugars and phosphates; the steps between them were made of pairs of chemicals called bases, weakly joined at the center by hydrogen atoms. Only four different bases were used???adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). But their sequence could vary so widely along the length of the staircase that they made up an almost limitless information-storage system, like the memory bank of a computer. In addition, because the bases were chemically complementary?that...
...times the daily medical dosage usually prescribed for dieters. In rare cases?particularly when Methedrine is used???the jolt can raise blood pressure enough to cause immediate death; chronic use can lead to a psychosis that many doctors feel is more similar to schizophrenia than any of the psychotic symptoms brought on by other dangerous drugs. While a person is "up" on speed, his body runs down, making him easy prey to disease. Although amphetamines generally are not considered physically addictive, when a user comes down ("crashes") he is so tired and depressed that he is tempted to start again...
...visited the rooming house where he lived, the theater where he was captured, the jail basement where he was shot. At the Texas School Book Depository building, each one went to the sixth-floor spot where Oswald had stood, shouldered the 6.5-mm. Mannlicher Carcano rifle that he had used???and took...