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...complex as the system it directs. Even after two decades of intensive study only about one-third of the genes have been mapped along the length of DNA in the chromosome of so elementary a creature as the digestive-tract bacterium Escherichia coli. The reason: just a teaspoon of E. coli DNA has information capacity approximately equal to that of a computer with a storage capacity of about...
...slight force of the earth's magnetic field. Some animals seem to depend upon old-fashioned topographic features, which they pick up with their own sonar. Eels, according to studies reported by Orr, have so keen a sense of smell that they could detect half a teaspoon of alcohol diluted in 42-mile-long Lake Constance...
...knowledgeable biographies by an industrious naturalist. Leonard Lee Rue III knows more than other authorities, including Larousse, will let on about the American opossum: Did anyone else know that an infant opossum is the size of a pencil eraser, while a whole litter of 16 would not fill a teaspoon? Most backward and unfortunate of all American mammals, Mother usually has only a dozen teats. What happens to the odd opossums? They are dropouts...
...Lemass to Belfast. It was then that Paisley, fearing a sellout to the Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley stormed, "as try to stop our Protestant cause." When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Belfast this month to dedicate a bridge, embittered Catholics promised retaliation; and sure enough, a twelve-pound chunk of concrete came crashing down on her car from a fourth-floor window on her parade route, luckily...
...succeed in Mississippi politics since Reconstruction has meant being a segregationist, and James P. Coleman succeeded. "Those who propose to mix the races in our public schools might as well try to dip the Atlantic dry with a teaspoon," he said as Governor in 1956, two years after the Supreme Court school integration ruling. And, as he had promised he would, he signed laws aimed at thwarting that decision...