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...simulated tests on earth, however, such lowly forms of life as bacteria have survived in a Marslike environment. Moreover, some biologists theorize, life could have evolved on Mars by entirely unfamiliar biological processes. That does not mean that scientists expect to find strange, advanced beings on Mars. But they do not preclude the possibility of primitive life unlike anything ever seen on earth...
...panel on drugs used in dentistry found that mouthwashes are generally about as effective as a solution of common salt or even plain water. It suggested that the makers be required to drop claims that their products control breath odor, relieve throat pain or reduce the number of bacteria in the mouth. The washes should be allowed on the market, the panel said, only if they are advertised as "pleasantly flavored solutions...
...justify its proliferation. Technology in ay fields races toward the day when man, wishing to zap his fellow man, can choose from an infinite arsenal of macabre techniques. While we are waiting for a weapons scientist somewhere out there to stumble upon a peaceful use for his gases and bacteria we can take heart in the words of Ogden Nash...
This small, highly mechanized volume has been timed as perfectly as the moment of Apollo 10's splashdown. It is as up to date as this week's man-in-the-moon headlines, as plausible as the current plan to place returning U.S. astronauts in bacteria-proof "biological isolation garments." The book's thesis: puny man, poised on the edge of the new world of space, runs a great danger of upsetting the old world of earth. Each space capsule re-entering from orbit in the unknown is a potential bearer of extraterrestrial organisms capable of unleashing...
What is left afterward is the impression of a few feverish laps around the laboratory, an oppressive feeling that the spreading bacteria may be less of a threat than the organized technology necessary to fight it. The book remains essentially a great short story, distended to novel length, that closes on a dying fall...