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...pure statistics," Van Loon concedes. "We have no physical explanation for what we've found." That explanation may be hard to come by. Experts have calculated that the tiny change in the solar constant detected by Solar Max can supply less than a millionth of the energy needed to produce the observed changes in weather. "If there really is an effect," says Van Loon, "there must be an enhancing mechanism, and we don't have the foggiest idea of what that enhancing mechanism might be." Yet the statistical evidence is so compelling that many scientists are taking it seriously...
...Walt, who had sunk his fortune into this $17 million mousehole, was not done wheeling and dreaming. Disney's name, the most trusted in the movie business, reassured visitors. By Labor Day the park had already greeted its millionth paying guest, and after a year the attendance was 3.8 million. Last August, Disneyland recorded its 250 millionth admission. "We were the first theme park," says Frank Wells, Disney's president and chief operating officer. "With the vision of Walt Disney, we brought the standards of the park, our courtesy and cleanliness, to new levels, and we built...
...twin obstacles in the path of contemporary music are the past and the recent past. In the violin repertoire, the beloved romantic concertos have maintained such an iron grip on audience affections that even indisputable 20th century masterworks have been neglected in favor of the millionth performance of the Beethoven, Brahms or Tchaikovsky concertos. It has not helped that some compositions of the '50s and '60s amounted to teeth-grinding assaults on the instrument that made both soloists and audiences recoil...
They were too modest. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Harper & Row; 360 pages; $19.95) by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. has been the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller for 14 consecutive weeks. The millionth copy of the book rolled off the presses last month, less than a year after its November 1982 publication. That milestone, claims the publisher, made Excellence the second-fastest-selling nonfiction hardcover book in U.S. history, topped only by Alex Haley's Roots...
...develop missiles that bury themselves in the ground and explode in what the planners call Earth Penetrator. Or the Soviets could try to detonate them simultaneously right over the targets. The Pentagon retorts that incredibly precise timing would be needed: the missiles would have to explode within a millionth of a second of one another to avoid Fratricide-a capability, U.S. intelligence sources optimistically estimate, that will not be achieved by the Soviets for at least ten years. Says Berkeley Physicist Charles Townes, a key Pentagon adviser: "The Soviets are resourceful guys, fully capable of developing ways to counter Dense...