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...other way that platypuses might maintain territories, he says, is with the complicated array of scents that the male secretes from the area around his neck. The scents could be used to mark trees or rocks to warn off other platypuses...
...trouble is first recorded by sensitive, computerized instruments in the control room of the nuclear power plant. They warn that temperatures inside the reactor are rising fast toward a danger point - so fast that only one explanation is possible: somehow, the main pipes carrying water to the reactor core have broken or clogged. As white-coated technicians look on helplessly, the back-up water system also fails. Deprived of the coolant that controls its temperature, the reactor begins melting in its own heat. Then the machine and its fuel collapse into a molten mass that explosively converts the coolant water...
...about the health risks posed by obesity. Then, too, a slender figure has never been as universally admired on the Continent as it is in the U.S. In West Germany, where Doppel-kinnepidemie−the double-chin epidemic−was a bulgy badge of the postwar economic miracle, nutritionists warn direly that 78% of all citizens are still overweight and some 70,000 a year die prematurely of diabetes, coronaries, and other ailments accentuated by overeating. Three slenderizing volumes by diet expert Ulrich Klever of Bavaria−Calorie Compass, Protein-Plus Diet and Everything That Makes You Slim−have...
...position, he continued to argue in favor of allowing oil prices to rise as a means of cutting consumption, boosting production and lessening U.S. dependence on risky foreign crude sources. Lately, though, the President seems to have shifted his stand again at the urging of his political advisers, who warn that whatever the economic merits, letting oil prices go up so close to a presidential election is no way to win votes. The Democrats, who have consistently opposed swift decontrol and high oil prices on the ground that the inflationary impact would threaten economic recovery, can now claim, with some...
...Yorkers interpreted the Vice President's statement as meaning that Ford was relenting. In fact, Rocky and Ford were sharply and openly split on the issue, and White House aides were furious at the Vice President. At 12:25 a.m. Friday, Beame phoned the White House to warn that a default might occur within twelve hours. But Presidential Adviser L. William Seidman decided that there was no need to wake Ford...