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...Leon Leonwood Bean sent a one-page circular advertising his new rubber hunting shoe to every person with a Maine hunting licence. He developed the boot, at least according to legend, because he was tired of coming back from hunting trips with aching, wrinkled feet...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Legacy of Leon Leonwood | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...CIRCULAR PREPARED recently by student government officials describing the upcoming referendum on the proposals of the Dowling Committee includes this exhortation: "Student opinion will have a decisive influence on the outcome of the forthcoming deliberations of the Faculty and Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote 'Yes' For $60,000 | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...Hinckleys traded up: they moved to Highland Park, the neighborhood-of-choice for haute Dallas. The house on Beverly Drive where John Jr. spent the years of his adolescence is large, with a sweeping circular driveway in front and a swimming pool out back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Drifter Who Stalked Success | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...main engines shut down. Other explosive charges spin off the empty tank and scatter its fragments like meteorites into the Indian Ocean. Finally the astronauts fire four more bursts-this time from the two smaller orbital maneuvering rockets in Columbia's tail-boosting the ship into a nearly circular orbit 170 miles above the earth. So it should go this week, shortly after the sun rises over Cape Canaveral on Friday. If there are no new hitches Astronauts John Young, 50, and Robert Crippen, 43, will board their 75-ton orbiter Columbia, lift off from the same launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On The Pad, Ready and Counting | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Almost all of E. coli's 4,000 genes are located in a single circular chromosome. But Cohen had isolated some bits of genetic material that float freely in the bacterium outside this main genetic repository. These bits of genetic "small change" are known as plasmids. A plasmid contains as few as three or four genes linked in a small circle, yet it sometimes is crucial to bacterial survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Life In the Lab | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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