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SOMETIME around AD 1600, Galileo Galilei is supposed to have climbed to the top of the leaning tower of Pisa and dropped two cannonballs of different sizes and weights over the edge. The point was to ...

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For decades, parents have warned children to stay away from dangerous objects. In 1950, however, one American company did the ...