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The South has scored some of the most remarkable gains. Georgia's legislators have increased state aid to cities and appropriated funds for a rapid-transit program, and the house has asserted its independence by choosing a speaker without consulting the Governor. As one state representative notes, "six of...
"Diplomatic Darwinism." The Republicans, who have been giving the President more support on Viet Nam than his own party, also became embroiled in the debate. A 91-page staff paper drawn for the Senate Republican Policy Committee-but not approved by the committee members-posed two questions about the war...
In Florida, "to hell with it" is "open profanity," punishable by statute. Tennessee forbids teaching evolution as contrary to the Bible. Congress pays chaplains to intone superstitions at every session. Chaplains are paid handsomely by the military services, a situation of which Thomas Jefferson took a dim view. Practitioners of...
The emergence of photosynthetic organisms was a key link in the evolution of life, said Schopf. The oxygen released in the process enabled higher, oxygen-breathing plants and animals to appear.
After long years of studying chimpanzees, University of Amsterdam Zoologist Adriaan Kortlandt, 49, is convinced that they do not live up to their full potential. Although chimps in captivity often construct crude shelters and mimic many of man's other activities, their behavior in the wild seems far less...