Word: threshold
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...exquisitely complex chemistry of living things, no substances are more important than two that stand on the threshold between nonlife and life: ribonucleic acids (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA). Nothing can live without some kind of RNA, and the kind of RNA it produces, which determines whether it will become an amoeba or a mammoth, is in turn determined by its DNA, the template of heredity. Last week two U.S. physician-scientists were named winners of the 1959 Nobel Prize ($42,606) in medicine for having synthesized giant molecules...
Politics Bypassed. On the threshold of the presidential election year, Nixon has some well formulated plans. For as long as he can, he would like to appear before the voters, not as an active, partisan candidate, but rather as Vice President of all the U.S. He would even prefer not to announce his candidacy during the early-bird New Hampshire primary next March, but he may be forced to if New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller files against him. Until then, Nixon will continue to project himself as a national leader who has dealt and can continue to deal...
Such mass whimsy, of course, might augur poorly for the future of the shaky democracy in Brazil. The victory of the rhinoceros "represents a phenomenon of the greatest sociological importance," one Brazilian sociologist said. "We are on the threshold of revolt." One hopes that if revolt does come, it will continue in as good humored a fashion...
...reluctantly ignored their teaching to marry just five months before their daughter's birth. Yet from the day of her elopement, Mary Shelley suffered continual persecution not only from Shelley's family, but also from her own father, whose contempt for convention stopped abruptly at his own threshold...
Khrushchev went down from Capitol Hill to Blair House just in time to swap his tan suit for his dark suit and play host at a state reception of the Soviet embassy. The first U.S. President to cross the embassy threshold, Dwight Eisenhower led his lady and 31 other Americans in joining 23 Russians in caviar, borsch and shashlik beneath crystal chandeliers. Said Khrushchev of his trip to date: "I'm very pleased-despite the strong propaganda, a warm reception." "Had anything he had seen changed his prior conceptions about...