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  1. Humans

    Letters from the November 17, 2007, issue of Science News

    Unequal opportunity “The Wealth of Nations” (SN: 9/1/07, p. 138) describes the difficulty of moving from exporting one product to exporting another in terms of a “distance” between various products. I would imagine, however, that a nation that already manufactures computers, for example, could easily move into calculators, but that the reverse might not be […]

    By Science News
  2. Math

    Good Stories, Good Math

    Young children who show sophisticated story-telling skills go on to demonstrate greater mathematical ability.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  3. Humans

    From the November 6, 1937, issue

    Giant electrical generators take shape in Pittsburgh, astronomers puzzle over unusual stellar spectra, and a dinosaur ancestor from Texas visits Harvard.