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...were these new rulers? In the modern mode, Aref, 41, gritted his teeth and presented himself at the Baghdad Hotel for the inevitable press conference with the swarm of foreign correspondents, an ordeal he seemed to regard as in some ways worse than the historic night of the coup itself. More than a hundred shouting reporters and photographers pushed aside his tommy-gun-waving guard and crowded around Iraq's boss to hear Aref speak freely about the aims and purposes of the new government. He said something about an end to one-man rule, friendship with all Arab...
With Hemingway and Faulkner dead, this is not a time of giants. The public is too easily preoccupied with giantism-an understandable result both of the publishers' belief that bestsellers sell best, and of the wistful ache of uncertain readers to be in the mode. But literature has never been a procession of giants. Nor do they arise, like occasional Poseidons, from a featureless sea. Rather, they form part of a moving and sustaining stream of literature, which is and must be fed by tributaries. Minor writers are needed to produce major ones...
...virus needs to be "carefully packaged for safe transmission." One effective package design is like a tadpole: the virus uses its tail as a stinger to pierce the cell and inject the nucleic acid. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have just reported photographic evidence that this is the mode of attack used by a mouse leukemia virus...
During its other mode of operation the "eye" of the spectrometer will scan the entire disc of the sun in alternating east-to-west and north-to-south motions...
During its scanning mode, the Harvard spectrometer can build up and store about 12 ultra-violet pictures of the whole sun each hour, recording the occurrence and spread of solar flares in every direction. However, it can scan only one wave-length at a time...