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121. A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess more than 300 hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.

122. More than 30 years ago Dr. Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winner, reported that genes can "jump," like pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another.

123. Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product on dending its coasts from rising seas than the United States does on military dense.

124. Canadian scientists have calculated that every nine years a human being will be struck by a meteorite, while each year 16 buildings can be expected to sustain damage from such objects.

125. Samuel Sewall, like other seventeenth-century colonists, viewed marriage as a property arrangement rather than an emotional bond based on romantic love.

126. A wildlife expert predicts that the reintroduction of the caribou into northern Minnesota will fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is greater than one wolf for every 39 square miles.

127. Found throughout Central and South America, the sloth hangs from trees by its long rubbery limbs, sleeping 15 hours a day and moving so infrequently that two species of algae grow on its coat and between its toes.

128. Today, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the same amount of acreage produces twice as many apples as it did in 1910.

129. Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely inspired, turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of Orleans and persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne.