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...daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control...
When the second and incredibly violent eruption ripped Thera around 1470 B.C., however, it caused the central and western part of the little island to sink and generated tsunamis (seismic sea waves) between 100 and 165 feet high. "Within 20 minutes, these waves hit the Cretan coast with terrifying fury," says Marinates, "destroying everything they could reach." The waves were accompanied by a rain of volcanic ash that buried nearly everything left standing and by fumes that poisoned the population. In the wake of the catastrophic eruption, most of the surviving Minoans fled Crete, sailing to other Mediterranean islands, mainland...
...alert researchers, the ordinary bathroom has long been a fount of fascinating scientific knowledge. Archimedes divined the principle of buoyancy while dunking in his tub. Modern researchers have written learned treatises on the vortex formed by water draining from a sink. Now two physicists have found that a bathroom is the perfect place to study another phenomenon: how splashing water generates atmospheric electricity...
...Masters, Gay had only to sink a perfectly straight 6-ft. putt on the 72nd hole to take home the $20,000 first prize; he missed, settled for a tie with Nicklaus and Tommy Jacobs, and shot a horrendous 78 for third place and $8,300 in the next day's playoff. In last week's Tournament of Champions at the Desert Inn Country Club, Gay had a five-stroke lead with only 18 holes to go, and Las Vegas bookmakers were offering 7 to 1 that even Btfsplk Brewer could not blow that $20,000 title. They...
Something in all living things responds mysteriously to the sound of wind in the reeds. At the gentle pleasing of a flute, certain crabs glide out of their caves and sit listening under water. Mosquitoes of some breeds collect on people playing flutes. Lions fly into panic, dogs sink into bliss-though only when the flute is played in the key of C minor. In China, the musk deer is hunted with a Judas flute, which the deer meekly follows to its doom...