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What Turner and his colleagues have done is nonetheless something of a scientific coup, opening up a new line of attack against an ancient scourge. Rather shrewdly, they opted not to attack cold viruses head on. Instead, they resorted to a little bit of molecular camouflage that would, in effect, hide the nose from its microscopic foes...
...very deep, fundamental and ancient question in biology," Meselson says...
...ANCIENT BLACK CIVILIZATION...
...read "The Nile's Other Kingdom," about recent archaeological finds of ancient Nubia in northern Sudan, with a schoolboy's interest [ARCHAEOLOGY, Sept. 15]. For the past 20 years, I have read anything I could find on ancient Nile Valley civilizations. The statement that "Nubia, not Egypt, may have been the first true African civilization" says it all. The suggestion that Nubia's black civilization may predate Egypt's civilization by some 3,000 years must be taken seriously by Egyptologists...
...ancient Egyptians looked to the land to the south, or Nubia, for many of their needs, including protection. The Egyptians implied that their first Pharaohs came from the land to the south, bringing an abundance of Nubian knowledge to Egypt with their rule. Now that archaeologists and Egyptologists are turning away from the racial prejudice practiced in earlier years against Africans, perhaps more specialists in the field will agree that the ancient Nubian civilization formed the basis of the first Egyptian dynasties. LEE M. ROBINSON, President African Historical Research Society St. Louis...