A Significant Other Voice

The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other s memory. This is how people care for themselves.—From Crow and Weasel by Barry Lopez 

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Helium, like the other members of its family, is an inert gas often used in balloons on account of its low density, and when inhaled results in a comic transposition of the human voice to a significantly higher register (not a realistic way to mimic counter-tenors, but very effective in well-loved Walt Disney cartoon characters) ... 

The networking of personal computers has continued and has enabled the sharing of expensive hard-copy output devices and other peripherals and has provided the significant benefit of faciUtating the transfer of data between computers. Joint authorship of technical articles is a quick and easy process with networked computers. The interappHcation communication that today links appHcations within a single computer will transparentiy link appHcations on networked computers. Voice-annotated documents are already available. 

Pauling joined a discussion group of concerned professors and students in Pasadena and was among the first to understand that the new bomb also meant a changed role for scientists. The problem presented to the world by the destructive power of atomic energy overshadows, of course, any other problem, he wrote a fellow researcher less than two months after Hiroshima. I feel that, in addition to our professional activities in the nuclear field, we should make our voices known with respect to the political significance of science. ... 

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