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...this astronomical revolution. Yet to understand phenomena of such cosmic proportions, scientists must rely on his theoretical masterwork: the general relativity theory. Unfolded in 1916 to an astonished and largely uncomprehending scientific community, it is Einstein's complex and subtle yet beautifully elegant mathematical explanation of nature's most pervasive???and paradoxically, its weakest?force: gravity...
...world's strongest economies simultaneously get into such a mess, and what can they do to dig themselves out? The antidotes to inflation have proved peculiarly elusive because the causes are deep and pervasive???and often unrecognized. Crop failures, bloated Arab oil prices and bumbling government strategies are only contributing causes; most likely there would have been serious, if not double-digit inflation without them. Indeed, Chiaki Nishiyama, one of Japan's leading economists, asserts that "inflation is an integral part of economic growth." Though his statement implies a hopelessness that cannot be accepted, he has a point. Inflation...