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More for the Desert. The nation took its first step toward creation of a national park system in 1872. In that year Congress designated a vast area in what are now the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as a public "pleasuring ground." Thus was created Yellowstone, still the largest (3,450 square miles), as well as the oldest of the national parks, and visited in the last 84 years by an army of 19 million. But the wonders of Yellowstone have yielded first place in popularity to Hoover Dam's Lake Mead in the desert country...
...hydrogen bomb loomed large and black, the thoughts of many a scientist who had known Kapitsa harked back to the days of his early and significant experiments on the behavior of hydrogen. It was presumed that if Russia had indeed perfected an H-bomb, Kapitsa's vast knowledge must have been of considerable help. The Russian government granted him a long list of honors...
...space ship from earth were to land on a planet of antimatter, it would I vanish in a puff of energy. But if a galaxy made of antimatter were to collide with an ordinary galaxy, their stars might not annihilate each other. In the vast emptiness of space, even within a galaxy, direct collisions between stars are extremely unlikely. But dust and gas between the stars would certainly come in contact. Each particle of normal matter would annihilate a particle of antimatter. The result would be a great increase in brightness. No such glowing collision has been observed, says Professor...
Making Explanations. What Togliatti demanded was a "Marxist" explanation of Stalinism, i.e., an explanation of particular events in terms of vast, impersonal historic forces. One such explanation-and the obvious one-for Stalin's rise to arbitrary power is the absence of checks and balances in the Communist system. Unable to concede this, Moscow's Central Committee offered an explanation which explained nothing: "The development of the personality cult was to an enormous extent contributed to by some individual traits of J. V. Stalin...
Greatest Mystery? The mysteries posed by U.S. caves alone are enough to tweak the curiosity of any red-blooded sleuth with a weakness for natural history. Is there one vast water-filled cavern system that arcs from Kentucky to Missouri under the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers? (The presence of one distinct species of blind fish in widely dispersed caves in the region implies such a linkage.) Why is Texas' Kiser Cave full of carbon dioxide? (Three airmen, equipped with oxygen tanks, almost died trying in vain to find the answer.) Do cave-dwelling bats have a burial ground...