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...their bodies. At least 83% of the wounds were of the most serious kind: third-degree burns in which both the upper and lower layers of the skin, the epidermis and dermis, are destroyed and there is damage to underlying tissue. Even if the boys were able to ward off the myriad deadly complications, including shock and infection, they had very little skin left to heal the wounds and provide grafts to cover the massive injuries. And yet today, one year after the accident, the Selby brothers are alive and well, thanks to a new method of growing large patches...
...American farmers. At the time they did most of their shopping at inefficient, local general stores, where they paid high prices and had limited choices. But a growing rail and post office network, with Chicago as the hub, was beginning to turn farmers into a cohesive market. Montgomery Ward had published a catalog for them since the 1870s, but Richard Sears perfected the technique beyond anyone's imagination. Using the expanding rail system that he knew so well and capitalizing on the rapid growth of post-Civil War America, Sears turned his catalog into a powerful link between makers...
...force shaping the large scale of the galaxy. Now it has lost some more of its supremacy to whatever molded the giant ribbon of gas. Listening to the radio waves crackling noisily from the center of the galaxy, astronomers were sure that the bulge of dust was a maternity ward for new stars. Now the strange arc has revealed itself as one mighty source of those waves, raising the startling possibility that the middle of the Milky Way is a barren womb. Seeking to solve the mysteries, astronomers will return to the Very Large Array again and again, tracking...
...their breakthroughs and building on one an other's work, traded programs much as Little Leaguers swap baseball cards. One of the most popular titles was MODEM, a 1977 program that allowed personal-computer owners to send programming instructions to one another by telephone. Its author, IBM Engineer Ward Christensen, takes pride in never having profited from his labor of love. Says he: "People sometimes send me money out of the blue, but I always send it back...
Ronald Reagan, as a result, was able to steal a march into Democratic territory. He won away urban ethnics from their Democratic ward leaders, white Protestants from the once solidly Democratic South, and even union workers disaffected from their labor bosses. In 1980 fully 43% of union workers and 26% of registered Democrats voted Republican...