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...conversations between Wing and Sand become less a way to show the process of writing a story than a means for saving the story. When the chapters full of Alcoholics Anonymous rhetoric overwhelm and the words "fuck" and "cock" appear for the thousandth time, Wing interrupts and asks Sand if this isn't all a little ridiculous. Sand reminds her that life is ridiculous and that trying to turn reality into a novel cannot alter the excesses of life...
McDade misused his House position in a way that Frank never did, and he hasn't received one-thousandth of the publicity. Frank paid the prostitute out of personal funds and only gave him Congressional privileges when performing legitimate business...
Irvine's ordinance is a small but significant step. Of the city's 5,000 businesses, about 500 electronics, insulation and fast-food packaging companies will be affected by the new rules. They produce more than 700,000 lbs. of ozone-depleting compounds annually -- one five-thousandth of the entire amount of such chemicals used worldwide every year...
Because the new pulsar is so young, it is spinning almost unimaginably fast. Its "day" is only one two-thousandth of a second long, and while the earth's equator rotates at about 1,000 m.p.h., the pulsar's is moving at more than 200 million m.p.h. By rights, the pulsar should fly apart, but it is so dense -- a teaspoon of it would weigh 300,000 tons on earth -- that its gravity holds it together. Says Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a member of the discovery team: "We can't help being astounded by what we are seeing...
...average lifespan of a star is 10 million years, Kirshner says. So what seems to be a huge difference, "is only one three thousandth of a star's life." He says it is comparable to "two events happening in the same second...