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...another day before a search party found the bodies, lying side by side in a cave in the canyon. Twine had been tied on the wrists of two of the women. The binoculars were broken, the camera dented. A four-inch snowfall had obliterated any trace of tracks. Nearby was a bloodied, yardlong log, about four inches thick...
...light exerts some pressure, but not much. Even the powerful sunlight glaring in empty space has the pressure of only one billionth of a pound per square inch-roughly equivalent to the weight of two cigarettes pressing on an acre of land. But in the vacuum of space, it was enough to push Vanguard I a mile or so off course over a period of two years. Light pressure is important in astronomy; it forms the tails of comets and is probably responsible for distributing the debris of exploded stars throughout the galaxy. But not until Vanguard I had been...
Then there was Rose O'Neill, a plumpish pixy who invented the Kewpie doll. After a wall switch broke, the lights in her house stayed on uninterruptedly for 16 years. Rosie had a favorite cat that entered her bedroom each morning through a private little six-inch door and dutifully placed a dead bird at the foot...
...crocodile-infested Zambezi River in a Livingstone-style litter of poles borne by four natives. "I've been trying to keep my weight down," Graham explained later, "but I was too much for one of the bearers, who buckled and broke his pole. I came within an inch of joining the crocodiles...
...Lincoln and Maggie Lord, that is. Lincoln is an organization mandible-a tanned, nobly hewn jaw suspended six feet from the floor and usually worth $50,000 a year because it inspires respect and belief when it flaps, strikes fear when it is silent. Pretty, intelligent Maggie, every tailored inch a corporation wife, wonders if there is anything more to her husband...