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...Cell Thoughts. Japan's surrender soon followed, and Kishi wondered whether he should wait for arrest by the Americans or commit suicide. A large family conference of Satos and Kishis assembled in his sick room to argue the question. One of his old schoolteachers tactlessly reminded Kishi of his fiery arguments in favor of hara-kiri when he was 16 years old. Kishi's answer was to brushstroke a short poem, which translates: "In another role, I shall commemorate the just war forever." This is nearly as obscure in Japanese as it is in English, but one thing...
...deoxyribonucleic acid) occurs in all living cells as long chains of molecules. In reproduction it passes on a "blueprint" governing cellular chemical events. Sueoka has shown that when a cell of the green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardi, divides into two daughter cells, the new cells each contain half of the original DNA molecule and also a newly synthesized portion...
...French officer who had been an inmate of Nazi Germany's Dachau concentration camp.) But at the "transit camp'' of Cinq-Palmiers in the Algiers military district, the inspectors found six prisoners, three of whom displayed recent contusions, jammed into a single cell; at their feet lay the corpse of yet another Moslem who had died unattended during the preceding night. At Telagh, in Oran military district, the wrists of several prisoners still bore the marks of ropes used to hang them from the ceiling during interrogations. And at the small (152 men) camp of Bou-Gobrine...
...Despair. It was in 1942, when all humanity "stood at the open door of Hell," that France first heard of him, in his bleak first novel, The Stranger, set in a death cell, and then in a collection of essays, The Myth of Sisyphus, where Camus explained his doctrine of the absurd. Its first words are: "There is but one truly serious philosophical question, and that is suicide," and its conclusion is that in a world with no God, man's only hope is to keep the absurd alive, and thus suicide is unthinkable. Because Camus articulated despair...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Taped in the Baltimore laboratories of Embryologist Dr. James Ebert, Life Before Birth follows his studies of cellular differentiation, his efforts to determine when, how and why a particular cell will begin to specialize...