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...living things existed on other earth-like worlds, what shape would they take? Some scientists have speculated that they would look like nothing on earth. Biochemist Joseph Kraut of the University of California at San Diego suggests a different view. He proposes that life evolving on planets with environments similar to the earth's would quite likely resemble familiar terrestrial forms...
...Kraut says that his speculations are merely "vaporings," but he supports them with some striking laboratory evidence. For the past 15 years he has headed a scientific team looking into the three-dimensional structure of enzymes, the long-chained proteins that act as catalysts in all the chemical reactions necessary for life. The group's latest interest has been an enzyme called subtilisin, which is found in ordinary soil bacteria. As they investigated subtilisin's complex structure, the scientists realized that it had a curious similarity to another enzyme, chymotrypsin, common to all vertebrates, including man. While...
...were beginning to yearn for "nice things" and even a few luxuries-if they were cheap enough and guaranteed to be durable. It was an enjoyment simply to peruse the bargains offered in men's toupees and nerve pills, mowing machines and dog-powered churns, foot scrapers and kraut cutters. Sears sewing machines and wagons, forges or stoves, were guaranteed to give the purchaser status ("The neighbors would admire it once they were permitted to inspect...
...hadn't spoken to anyone since." Arrested himself during the opening hours of the Pentagon siege, Mailer winds up in the same paddy wagon with a tall, ferocious American Nazi, and stares him down in the inevitable Mailerian confrontation of wills. "You Jew bastard," shouts the Nazi. "Kraut pig!" replies Norman, only a bit embarrassed. But for Mailer's reportorial eye and his caustic comments on an America overwhelmed by institutionalism, his version of the Pentagon march might have become far too personal. As it is, he reveals the diversity and ethical intricacy of the protest movement...
Died. Sig Ruman, 82, German-born character actor whose fate it was to be come Hollywood's idea of the typical "Kraut," the beefy, blustering, blundering seriocomic German, a role he played in endless films, most notably as Sergeant Schultz in 1953's Stalag 17; of a heart attack; in Julian, Calif...