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This week's report on the shuttle disaster is diagnostic rather than prescriptive. The most urgent need is that NASA should be broken into more manageable pieces.
The reasons why the microscopic anisotropy of molecules in crystals is reflected in the shapes of the macroscopic structures which they form have been obscure. Now there is some progress.