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... Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Typeset in 11 /13 pt Dante by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper ... Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Por tugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukr...

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... satellites. They have masses a few times greater than the Sun’s, and nowadays they are called microquasars. The black hole idea was thus available, ready made, for explaining the quasars and active galaxies ... somewhat laborious. By 20 01, at Spain’s Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Alister Graham and his colleagues realized that you could judge the mass just by looking at a galaxy’...

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... In the Alps he saw the tr aces of a vanished ocean, which formerly separ ated Italy and the Adriatic region from Switzerland and Austria. 16 3 The mathematics and abstract reasoning that emerged ... called them the Altaids, after the magnificent Altai mountain range that runs from Kazakhstan to China. ‘The Tethysides and the Altaids cover nearly a half of the entire continent of Eu...

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... and improvements of sea defences against tsunamis—the great ‘tidal waves’ that often accompany earthquakes. City by city, district by district, experts calculate the risks of damage and casualties ... potential energy of a stream about to go over a waterfall. The energy associated with a certain speed or temperature was greater in a large mass than in a small one, but only in...

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... proteins, and animals make greater use of this versatility than plants do. Another is that plants, being stationary, need a wider range of defences than animals that can run away from danger. In comparison ... in our own backyard, at the oldest stars of the Milky Way Galaxy itself, and at nearby galaxies. Billions of years from now, the Magellanic Clouds and the Andromeda Galaxy may...

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... Berkeley announced another walker, around 5.5 million years old, found in Ethiopia. He called it Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba, where kadabba meant ‘basal family ancestor’ in the Afar language of the ... widespread changes in the Atlantic reaching to South America and West Africa, already correlated with solar variations by other scientists. Farther afield, reductions of rainfall in East A...

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... exclusively in Australia. Kangaroos, koalas and all of the typical native mammals of Australia are marsupials. They give birth to very small offspring, which complete their gestation in a body pouch ... y obvious way to establish that one scenario rather than another was what actually happened. Also lacking is clear knowledge about what the planet was like at the time. It was certainly...

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... possibility of retreat as well as advance, remains a valid basis for thinking generally about co-evolution and its weaponr y. Hamilton’s idea of sex as a means of sharing out 539 plant diseases P otatoes ... feature was the absence of jaguars, pumas, harpy eagles, anteating armadillos and other predators on all of the smallest islands, letting the seed-eating rodents, leaf-cutte...

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... search for sparticles at Fermilab near Chicago, begun in 19 96, concluded only that a gluino, if it exists at all, must be at least as heavy as an atom of lead. That was beyond the capacity of ... the satellite died because of technical problems in 20 01. ‘It was exciting to see the solar weather changing day by day,’ said Saku Tsuneta of the National Astronomical Observatory of...

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... pp. 16 0–3, 2000 Valtaoja: personal communication, 2002 Brain images Landau: W.M. Landau et al., Transactions of the American Neurological Association, vol. 80, pp. 12 5–9, 19 55 Scandinavian researchers: ... 19 77 Manabe: remarks made at the opening of Japan’s Institute for Global Change Research, 19 98 Kennedy: editorial in Science, vol. 2 91, p. 2 515 , 20 01 National Academy o...

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