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...their former slaves live together on Harbour Island. On Spanish Wells the blacks are deported at 5 p.m. Five family names embrace the whites of these islands. The inbreeding is so ancient that they all look alike; thin, spindly, with glassy, blue eyes, crooked jaws, bony wrists and thick knuckles. The blacks are inbred to a lesser extent as they come and go more with the outer islands. Nevertheless, two out of four blacks share the same surname...
...miles in diameter. Unlike the earth's core, it is probably not molten and never has been; Sonett thinks that it consists of rock similar to earthly olivine, which is rich in iron and is also found in meteorites. Around the core is a 60-mile-thick transition zone, or lower mantle, composed of a mixture of olivine and basalt-like rock that was apparently formed out of molten material. Next comes the 150-mile-thick upper mantle, an entirely basaltic layer in which, some lunar scientists suspect, there may have been slow-moving convection currents -movements roughly akin...
...little joy in temperatures that reached -13° F. In Venice's Piazza San Marco, where makeshift bridges were set up two weeks ago so that pedestrians could negotiate the tide-flooded square, children skied and tossed snowballs. While Scandinavia was unseasonably warm, a deep Arctic freeze brought thick fogs, heavy snowstorms, knife-sharp winds and freezing rain to France, Britain, Spain, Italy, the two Germanys and most of Eastern Europe. It was Europe's most freakish winter weather in memory...
Many are blacks who see themselves as political victims, others whites who hate the blacks. Racial tension is so bad that some prisoners wear thick magazines strapped to their backs to ward off knife blades. In January 1969, the prisoners were allowed to exercise together in a small yard. Before long, a guard shot and killed three blacks. According to the guard's testimony before a Monterey County grand jury, the blacks were beating a white inmate. The guard said that he fired a warning shot, then killed...
...into an increasingly smaller orbit around the planet. At the same time, Venus' spin would have been greatly retarded and eventually reversed; the planet's surface would also have become searingly hot from the friction of the tidal movements, and volcanoes would have erupted-giving off the thick clouds of gases that still envelop Venus. Finally, after about 100 years, the moon would have come crashing into Venus, leaving the slow, backward spin as the legacy of a primordial celestial drama...