And they turn the political sphere into a wasteland.
Over the aeons the earth has pulled the moon out of shape, turning it from a sphere into an oval.
Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched a small sphere into space that could do little more than beep-beep-beep as it circled the Earth.
Later, Archimedes (c. 290 211 bc) showed how to use conic sections to divide a sphere into two segments having a given ratio.
Where once these gender crimes, in most instances against a partner or former partner, were likely to be committed in domestic settings, in many recent cases they have made a leap into the public sphere – into coffee shops and classrooms.
Unless there is a sphere into which the power of the state or the disapproval of the community cannot reach to choke dissent before it starts, then there's no start to liberty.
MB Watch Luciano Pavarotti's performance of Nessun Dorma at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and it is easy to see how he emerged from the classical sphere into the popular mainstream.
AS IF text messaging were not already ubiquitous over a billion messages a day flit between the world's 2 billion mobile phones it is now moving from the private sphere into the public one.
Those are the promises of, respectively, Emotiv Systems and NeuroSky, two young companies based in California, that plan to transport the measurement of brain waves from the medical sphere into the realm of computer games.
The fixed point theorem for the sphere asserts that any continuous function mapping the sphere into itself either has a fixed point or maps some point to its antipodal point.
At 38 going on 39, and away from the game for three years following his last -- or latest -- retirement as a professional hoopster, Jordan still appears to remember how to deftly and cleverly insert a round sphere into a round receptacle despite several large people hanging like scaffolding all over him.
