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...basement marks down all unsold merchandise 25% after twelve days, 25% more after 18 and 24 days, and at the end of 30 days gives to charitable organizations anything that is left. But 90% disappears within the first twelve days, and last year only one-tenth of 1% reached charities. Filene's describes any faults of its items on a dated tag, refunds the customer's money whenever damage or irregularity is too great. Says Hodgkinson: "It doesn't pay to gild the lily to the point where it dies...
...Statistical studies," he said, "tell us that one-tenth of the Chilean population receives almost half of the national income. This bad distribution of Chile's riches is paid for in malnutrition of the people." Practicing what Silva Henriquez preached about agrarian reform, the Roman Catholic Church in Chile undertook its own land-distribution program, parceling out 13,200 of its own acres in the Andean foothills, and providing financial and technical help to the new proprietors. Cardinal Silva Henriquez has also been the enthusiastic sponsor of Father Pedro Castex, a lively priest in a beret, who lives...
...glow when they hit the atmosphere, but they are dissipated long before they reach the earth. There are also small amounts of gamma rays. Like the X rays, these are electromagnetic radiation that travel with the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.). Following behind at less than one-tenth the speed of light come neutrons from the nuclear reaction. Most of the rest of the energy released goes into the vaporized debris of the bomb and its casing, which expands into space at less than 200 miles...
...heart of the instrument is a tiny square "thermistor," one-tenth of a millimeter on a side, small than a pin head, and attached to two hairlike platinum wires. The electrical resistance of the thermistor changes in response to tiny fluctuations in temperature. Special filters allow only a very narrow band of the infrared, between eight and 14 microns, to fall on the thermistor. The filter rejects the shorter infrared waves omitted by the sun and reflected by the moon. The earth's atmosphere, where water vapor, ozone and carbon dioxide absorb other portions of the infrared, also acts...
...clear cut that one may state, "Something is better than nothing." The dangers, if any, of a shelter program must be compared with the benefits that shelters might give. The first is to decide on the probability that shelters might save lives among the members of the Harvard community. First it should be noted that most of these people will be in the vicinity of the shelters for only about one-half of the year. If one estimates the probability of a nuclear war in the next five years at one-tenth, the probability that such a war will...