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Mysterious Silence. Despite the storm, readings taken by Mariner's infrared spectrometer enabled JPL investigators to identify several earthlike minerals in the Martian crust, including quartz, granite and anorthocite. Those findings caused considerable excitement among the scientists. They indicated that Mars had at one point in its history undergone...
But there is another Loren Eiseley, as this eighth book of his makes clear. This is the Eiseley who grew up listening to his father recite Shakespeare to his stone-deaf wife; the Eiseley who rode the rails during the Depression, who has spent much of his life hunting for...
Perhaps the single greatest difficulty in a difficult play is making plausible the evolution of Lear's character. In the crucial opening lines, Lear is completely self-possessed. The camera frames Scofield's face, jowly and immobile, and the mouth moves just barely, opening to let the words fall out...
Borrowing a phrase from classical biology, Kraut calls the discovery the first known instance of "convergent evolution" on the molecular scale. In other words, "nature has invented the same piece of molecular machinery to do a particular job in two separate and independent instances." Kraut speculates that this convergence in...
Yet resistance to change is strong, and no speedy revolution of U.S. medicine is in sight. What is happening amounts to a slow, often painful evolution that is shaping a new kind of doctor. He still represents only a vocal minority, but his attitudes are significant: - >He is more like...