Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...notes Indian Finance Minister Morarji Desai, "has always had the ability to produce more food than he needs." Lack of mineral resources, often cited as an insurmountable barrier to the industrialization of many Asian nations, did not prevent the industrialization of Japan. Modernization is an intricate process, involving a balance between agricultural, technological and industrial growth. But given intelligent economic and political management and injections of Western aid, most-though not all-Asian, African and Latin American nations ought to be able to turn the trick...
...that tend to burst the container. Other fission products absorb neutrons, and when too much of this "poison" has accumulated, it makes the nuclear reaction slow down or stop. At intervals, the fuel elements must be removed and their unburned uranium re-purified by a difficult and expensive chemical process...
...just another animal. He is unique in peculiar and extraordinarily significant ways. He is the only organism with true language. This makes him the only animal who can store knowledge and pass it on beyond individual memory." He has a moral sense, including a sense of responsibility. ("The evolutionary process is not moral - the word is simply irrelevant in that connection - but it has finally produced a moral animal.") To whom is man responsible? "The post-Darwinian answer seems fairly clear: man is respon sible to himself and for himself." Since he is not the darling of the gods, Simpson...
...methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor (all probable constituents of the earth's primitive atmosphere) is bombarded with electric sparks or high-energy radiation, amino acids are produced. Amino acids are the building blocks that form the multitudinous proteins in living organisms, and Dr. Fox carried the process a step farther. When he heated a mixture of amino acids with polyphosphoric acid as a catalyst, he got big molecules with many of the properties of proteins, i.e., they have similar chemical characteristics, are digested by natural enzymes and are eaten greedily by bacteria...
...Alien Planets. If a life-forming process happened on earth, said Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University, something similar probably happened on millions of other planets in the universe, and may have produced highly intelligent creatures...