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Students of ancient life believe that billions of years ago the newly formed earth was covered by an atmosphere that had no free oxygen in it. Instead it had methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and other gases that cannot be breathed by modern animals. Lightning flashes, so the theory goes, forced...
Scrap Production. When Britain put up its Lightning jet against the Lockheed F-104G Starfighter in 1959, Bonn chose the U.S. plane in a $780 million deal. Incensed, the British began grumbling that the plane would quickly be outdated, now refer to the project as "organized scrap production." Just two...
Magical Power. At first glance, the six objects of Wescott's literary affection-Katherine Anne Porter, Somerset Maugham, Colette. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and Thornton Wilder-seem to have little in common. But all illustrate Wescott's passionate belief in the magical power of a story to hold...
Ben Light was a big Irishman who lived in a mining town outside Pittsburgh and sold moonshine during the Depression for 20 a full shot no color and 25? colored yellow. The law never got him. but he turned from a laughing, joyful man into a bitter man when a...
President Pusey's effort to draw closer to his Faculty by serving as Dean reflected the imperative need for understanding between Faculty and Administration. But Mr. Pusey's assumption of the double burden of Dean and President placed a crushing burden on his shoulders: in the two jobs, 159 departments...