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Barber: Ah, but the study also says that only a bald spot on top - so-called vertex baldness - is the problem. If you're losing hair in front or on the sides, you're probably...
...louder and breathe easier, snap vacation photos unselfconsciously, eat Eskimo Pies and Fritos. But near the wall, a young Boston father tells his rambunctious son, "Hush, Timmy--this is like a church." The visitors' processionals do seem to have a ritual, even liturgical quality. Going slowly down toward the vertex, looking at the names, they chat less and less, then fall silent where the names of the first men killed (July 1959) and the last (May 1975) appear. The talk begins again, softly, as they follow the path up out of the little valley of the shadow of death...
...miles, fascinated, accompanied by a dog who skates no better than I do and an assistant dog who loses control of her hindquarters when she tries to turn. We reach a cove where three boys skate in a big, shifting triangle, rattling a hockey puck across the ice from vertex to vertex...
...Vertex, who sired 1965 Derby Winner Lucky Debonair, Top Knight was a "very ugly, gangly colt," with a reputation for gimpy legs. "He may be a little odd-looking," admits Trainer Ray Metcalf. "Nobody particularly liked him-until he started putting those $100,000 purses in the bank...
These space-age children are taking an experimental science curriculum drawn up by University of California Physicist Robert Karplus, 32, whose specialty is not elementary school teaching but elementary particles. (Sample Karplus research paper: "Spectral Representations in Perturbation Theory-The Vertex Function.") A Vienna-born infant prodigy who could multiply four-digit numbers in his head before he went to first grade, Harvard-trained (Ph.D., 1948) Karplus got to worrying about schools after he became a father (three girls, two boys, a sixth child on the way). Listening to teachers talk about the problems of teaching science, he decided that...