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  1.                                                                                 THE WEEK, Page 19HEALTH & SCIENCEBuckyballs
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  4.     These spherical, 60- and 70-atom carbon molecules are named
  5. after Buckminster Fuller, who popularized the geodesic dome they
  6. resemble. They've never been seen outside the lab -- until now.
  7. Geologists tracked down buckyballs in the wilds of Russia in an
  8. unusual, ancient, carbon-rich rock near the town of Shunga,
  9. close to the Finnish border.
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