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Cauthorne was an advocate of simplified spelling. When told that phonetic spelling would destroy philology, he countered by quoting Francis James Child, then Boylston Professor of Rhetorie and Orstory. "They can change spelling all they please but it will not threw a Biologist off the trail so long as they leave one letter of the word...
...Said to Albert." A perennial debate among professors is whether subject or student comes first?and the verdict usually favors those who stress the subject. Harvard Biologist George Wald, 59, shows why. As a researcher, he has made one of the most enlightening finds of recent decades: his discovery of the Vitamin A molecule in the retina goes a long way toward explaining the physiology of eyesight. Light, it seems, makes this crooked molecule straighten out and signal the optic nerve. The very originality of such work also makes Wald a frontiers-of-research lecturer...
...notoriously dangerous for astronauts, but the first astronauts who return from the moon or Mars may be a danger to all life on earth. The exotic microorganisms that they bring with them may become man's deadliest ene mies, warns a panel of eminent scientists headed by Biologist Allan...
More from the Sun. Martian life, said the panel headed by Princeton Biologist Colin S. Pittendrigh and Stanford's Nobel-prizewinning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, must be hardy enough to survive long periods of extreme dryness and cold. Martian organisms may concentrate water vapor the way earthly plants collect small traces of carbon dioxide; they may even make their own water by chemical action. There is a possibility that they need no water at all, using some other liquid as a fluid medium...
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