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...Eggs," explains the quiet-toned, even-tempered, lab-loving Housemaster, "start out as relatively simple and, to the eye, homogeneous masses. But actually they exhibit vast chemical diversity and as they divide again and again produce systems which become increasingly complex." And when he speaks of eggs Hoadley is referring to the lower vertebrates and the invertebrates--not mammals. "Why," for instance, he challenges, "when many different kinds of eggs and sperms are all present in the same sea, do the sperms of one species of starfish happen to find and fertilize the eggs of that species...
Professor Hoadley is a scientist first, last and always--even to insisting on keeping in step with whomever he is walking down the street. As for excitement, he says he is "nothing on night life," though he admits that "the complex species of mammal found in such an environment is definitely an interesting problem. But then, that's not my field...
...long years, Brooklynites had waited for this moment. Their beloved Dodgers ("Our Bums") had just clinched the National League pennant in Boston. Many another baseball town has gone wild over a pennant victory. But Brooklyn's faithful fans-victims of an inferiority complex provoked by the pompous, pennant-heavy New York Giants and Yankees across the river-burst into a demonstration last week that looked like New Orleans' Mardi Gras, New Year's Eve in Times Square and the 1918 Armistice...
...become a favorite course of budding geologists because of the jobs it offers. An expert Texas micropaleontologist can diagnose the age and character of 100 underground samples a day, making a geological index of 3,000 to 4,000 feet of drilling. In California, where petroleum signs are more complex, scientists must identify about 100 types of fossils in each sample, and analysis is far slower. All told, some 500 fossil experts are hired by Gulf Coast and California oil producers to divine the meaning of the "pebbles" they...
...contribution, corporations were nicked in two chief ways: 1) 6% was added to normal tax rates; 2) each excess-profits tax bracket was increased 10%. But it was not as simple as that. Some sections of the bill were less like a meat-ax than a complex series of revolving knives...