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...reached in family organization. More complex units could more thoroughly control the external environmental fluctuations." Guided by similar fundamental evolutionary forces, man and insects developed social systems, even though as organisms they were of widely divergent stocks. And societies, like family groups, further tend to supersede the individual as the unit of selection...
Today about 1,000 different wetting agents have been made in the U.S., are now marketed under some 270 bewildering trade names. Their chemical structure varies greatly and is quite complex. But all these compounds have one thing in common. One end of each long molecule is hydrophobic or water-hating, the other is hydrophilic or water-loving. Thus in a mixture of water and organic material such as oils, one end of the detergent molecule dissolves in the water layer, the other in the oil, breaking down the inter-surface tension or antipathy of the two substances...
...Leon Blum and with the protofascist sons of an ex-mistress, and indulges in some mild flirtations, but his one dissipation is his telephone talks with old Johannes Robin, his rich Jewish relative by marriage in Berlin. These talks, and Lanny's occasional visits, reveal Germany's complex political landscape-and reveal also the terrible pathos of a Scheiber (profiteer) who caught on too late...
...louse possesses qualities of dogged persistence and patient diligence which arouse that admiration, thinly masked by a pretense of loathing, which men similarly feel for competing races whom they fear, and, therefore, persecute. (We refer to the "Blond Aryan" complex. . . .) -Hans Zinsser: Rats, Lice and History...
Blond Aryans with the louse complex were threatened by their blood brothers last week. Typhus was spreading through Poland to the Baltic States. Most of it was spotted typhus, carried by lice. German officials, settlers and soldiers were warned to avoid all contact with Polish "natives." Schools were closed in at least one town, Krakivsk Visty, Poland...