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...could be in a position to do so if something were to break his way. A TIME Citizens' Panel, conducted by Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., over the telephone during the first ten days of October, suggests a softness among some Nixon supporters. The 322 panelists, chosen at random from a scientifically selected sample of 2,323 registered voters in 16 key states, say they are for Nixon nearly 2 to 1. Yet they are split down the middle on what kind of President McGovern would make-4 out of 10 believe he would be a good or at least...
Though some of the refugees say that difficulties and harassment in Uganda have subsided, there are still occasional reports of random terror. One father arrived in London only to receive a call telling him that his son, after driving him to the Ugandan airport, had been stopped by soldiers and slowly cut to death with machete-like panga knives. A businessman said that he left hurriedly after both his partners in a gas-station chain were stopped while carrying the week's receipts into Kampala, put into the trunk of a car and driven to a village where they...
Although superconductivity was discovered in 1911, it was not really explained until Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer offered their now-famous "BCS theory" (from their initials) in 1957. At extremely low temperatures, they said, electrons are coupled with one another (in so-called Cooper pairs), cease their random collisions and flow unhindered. Superconductivity may lead to more efficient transmission of electrical power, better transportation systems, and even harnessing the energy of thermonuclear fusion...
Protogyny (the development of a male from a functional female) is not uncommon among other kinds of tropical fish. But the rigid hierarchy of the wrasse harems represents a much more stringent control over the production of males than is found in the comparatively random sex reversals of "schooling" fish. Robertson believes that the inbreeding produced by this aquatic pecking order is genetically advantageous to the species. Because "the social organization is a framework within which the selective process works," he concludes, the genes passed on by each male wrasse are those best adapted to the environment of the harem...
...STEPFORD WIVES by IRA LEVIN 145 pages. Random House...