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Mzee, the "old one," as he likes to be called, was once a Communist, then leader of the bloody Mau-Mau rebellion, and finally the first Prime Minister of Kenya. It might have been those eight years in a damp jail cell that made him creak a bit as he dropped to his knees. But that only made the student body cheer and whistle all the louder when Jomo Kenyatta knelt to become a Doctor of Laws. Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania and chancellor of newly founded East African University in Kampala, placed his own tasseled cap on Jomo...
Computers have helped scientists to discover more than 100 new subatomic particles, and are busy analyzing strange radio signals from outer space. Biochemists have used the computer to delve into the hitherto unassailable secrets of the human cell, and hospitals have begun to use it to monitor the condition of patients. Computers now read electrocardiograms faster and more accurately than a jury of physicians. The Los Angeles police department plans to use computers to keep a collection of useful details about crimes and an electronic rogue's gallery of known criminals. And in a growing number of schools, computers...
...kindness did. While in solitary, Sands was visited by crusading Warden Clinton T. Duffy. Duffy convinced the rebellious young prisoner that true rehabilitation would swing open "the Front Gate." Almost overnight Sands became a model prisoner and earned the right to work in the prison office and share a cell with another model prisoner-Caryl Chessman, who was then serving his first hitch at San Quentin. Years later, Chessman returned to San Quentin as a convicted kidnaper and rapist, and was executed. But Sands's reform was for real...
Cytologists (cell scientists) had known since the early 1900s that some animal cells studied under the microscope contain a little dark spot that others lack. Yet not until 1949 did Canadian Neuro-Anatomist Murray L. Barr realize that the spots, which he was studying in cats' nerve cells, appear only in cells from females. Later research showed that the spots, now known as "Barr bodies" or sex chromatin, consisted of one X chromosome - the one that is inactivated after it has done its job of helping to determine femaleness...
Esso engineers admit that their fuel cell is too heavy and feeble at present to have many practical applications, but they are confident that it will soon lose weight and gain power. Fuel cells may never compete with such large sources of electricity as coal-burning power stations, but they are candidates for smaller jobs in which convenience and efficiency are important. They may soon find a use in space, contributing valuable water as a byproduct along with their electricity. On earth they may provide cheap, quiet electricity for homes, weather stations or microwave repeaters beyond the reach of commercial...