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A Short History of Nearly Everything
By Bill Bryson
Broadway. 544 pp. $27.50
Reviewed by Richard Di Dio
Philadelphia Inquirer - Sunday, August 31, 2003
If this is Tuesday, it must be Betelgeuse. Or could it be Olduvai Gorge?
There is no need to worry about missing any important sites because Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is the ultimate guide to the universe, taking you from the outer reaches of the cosmos to the mysterious molten interior of the Earth, and then into the even deeper, helically twisted landscape of our DNA.
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