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Last winter, a group of high-school and college students who had banded together for informal bull sessions at the church decided to form a "prayer-cell." One discipline to which they bound themselves was to ask a stranger each day, "Do you believe in prayer?" One night when Pastor Burkhart was eating alone in a restaurant, he fell into conversation with the waitress and suddenly sprang his day's query on prayer. "Well, big boy," she said, visibly shaken, "I must say that's the most unusual approach I've ever heard...
...amoebae are still intact and outwardly unchanged, but something bigger than themselves has taken charge of their lives. When all the volunteers have arrived, the cell mass pokes up in a blunt spire, then falls on its side and forms a sausage-like "slug." As soon as the slug is formed, it acts like a multicelled animal, crawls with comparative rapidity and good coordination. It even has senses of a sort, for it is attracted by light...
...viruses are alike in one respect: they are parasites that can operate only in a living cell. But they differ greatly in size, looks and behavior. They also show astonishing individuality. Some are round, some shaped like rods, some have tails like tadpoles. A few, almost as complicated as bacteria, which are a higher form of life, even have partial enzyme systems to help digest their food. Most viruses are rabid specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza...
...Greeny Greenberg, a former associate of Bugsy, was found dead. Police arrested Bugsy. In jail, Bugsy lived fine, arranged for meals of steak and pheasant, and had liquor served in his cell to entertain his women visitors. And things took care of themselves. Two State's witnesses suddenly died: the case against Bugsy died with them...
...pavement. But life went on in the Gallería. In August 1944, it was the unofficial heart of Naples. It was a living and subdividing cell of vermouth, Allied soldiery and the Italian people...