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...presented evidence that seemed to rule out the possibility. Although amino acids can be assembled in two ways?one a mirror image of the other?most of those found in terrestrial life have a left-handed configuration; that is, polarized light waves passed through them are rotated slightly to the left. Yet, when Ponnamperuma tallied up the meteorite's amino acids, he found an almost equal distribution of left-and right-handed molecules. That, he felt, was a clear sign that they had come from space...
...Questioner and answerer resolve themselves into two halves of the Bemused Reader, who finds himself in the bathroom-where Rogin's characters seem to spend a good deal of time -staring into the mirror and mouthing the same word over and over again until it empties of meaning: "Velleity. Velleity. Velleity...
...tribute to the palpable miracles of timing and inflection that a director like Mike Nichols and an actor like Peter Falk can produce out of their sheer unfaltering professionalism. Falk is perfectly cast. He has just the right sag to the shoulders and a face that a mirror would wince at in the morning. Lee Grant is tart, perky and warmly sympathetic. Vincent Gardenia is a pillar of righteous, lard and quivers hysterically when he thinks of all the love that was denied him and lavished upon Mel when they were boys...
Kenneth T. Dinklage, a UHS psychologist, says that strephosymbolia manifests itself in a student's tendency to reverse syllables or letters of words while reading, or to perceive a letter as its mirror image. That is, he may read "was" for "saw" and may see "b" for "d." There is also an inclination to confuse right and left. Dinklage gives an example of a quarterback with strephosymbolia who frequently wiped out his own backfield as he ran the opposite way from a play he himself had called...
...African Genesis), Jane van Lawick-Goodall does not press the homosimian parallels or insist that psychocosmic mysteries can be solved by watching a bunch of monkeys in a tree. Yet the parallels are strong, and so is the reader's temptation to see in the chimpanzee a hairy mirror of mankind. A woman as well as a scientist, Jane loves her subjects and makes the reader love them too-not as clever pets but as serious and struggling individuals. All the more painful, then, to be told that throughout Africa chimpanzees are being shot for the pot by natives...