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...Arabia, the dream of Arab unity, of one Arab nation. The idea in modern times sprang up first about 1870 at, of all places, Beirut, among, of all people, Christian Lebanese students of the American University of Beirut. U.S. education, received by Christian Arabs, was the first modern catalyst in the retort where Arab unity began to simmer and then to boil...
This was what Beadle had been hoping for. His explanation is that the gene damaged by X-ray violence was originally responsible for producing an enzyme (organic catalyst) needed in the mold's process of making vitamin B-6 out of simpler nutrients. With the gene out of action, the process stopped, and the mold could not grow without help. It was like a human diabetic who needs an external source of the insulin that his body cannot make...
...Beadle was not wasted. Since becoming chief of Caltech's biologists, he has revealed unexpected talents, including fund raising and speechmaking. His colleagues agree that his greatest talent is his way of encouraging and enhancing his division without visibly running it. He tries to function as a catalyst rather than as organizer, encouraging scientists from different disciplines to take a lively interest in each other's fields. Caltech's Division of Biology is equal to any in the world, and it operates in an atmosphere of amiability spiced with high intellectual excitement. These are Beadle...
...untaught. The math ability of its students runs to about fifth-grade level; their IQs are the school's lowest. This year a phenomenon startling enough to be called a "miracle" by James Lick Principal William Baker is taking place: Refresher Math students are beginning to learn math. Catalyst of the change is a wiry, tireless 36-year-old Turk named Tanju Ergil, who does not own a teaching certificate...
This fault disappears in the second act, and there is a great moment in Roosevelt's library where everything seems to catch hold at once. The catalyst is his awkward and lonely daughter, Anna, whom he crossly reprimands for a minor fault. But then he and Eleanor begin to communicate, and Anna, affectingly played by Roni Dengel, comprehends her parents maturely for the first time...