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...Ball's team discovered the compounds in a cloud near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. "We are slowly getting hints of the chemistry of interstellar space clouds," he said...
...rundown of these five key contests and three others of special interest: OHIO. In assessing his party's nominee for Governor, an Ohio Republican recently referred to Roger Cloud as "a nice guy, but when he walks into a room, nothing happens." Cloud has walked into a political race where nothing good, from his standpoint, will happen either. Fallout from a state-loan scandal has crippled State Auditor Cloud and the rest of the G.O.P. ticket. At the campaign's outset, Cloud unsuccessfully demanded that two of his running mates, who had accepted political contributions from borrowers...
Thriving on Smog. How could minute plants live in a cloud? Many of them, Parker decided, are large enough to act as nuclei for slowly condensing droplets of water-an essential ingredient for all earthly life. The tiny organisms also have an amazingly varied diet available even in unpolluted clouds: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ammonium, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, butane and acetone. Such necessary minerals as potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron and magnesium could be transported to the clouds in airborne soil and dust particles...
...life in the clouds is as widespread as Parker suspects, biologists will have whole new ecological possibilities to explore. Clouds may well spread disease, for example, by harboring harmful viruses or bacteria. On the other hand, organisms that thrive on the ingredients of smog and smoke could help in the fight against air pollution. Introduced into clouds, they would feed on the undesirable gases and particles, thus converting pollution into harmless cloud creatures...
...been trod before, but with his stylistic gift-a broad sense of satire wedded to an acute political intelligence-Wills makes even his recapitulations entertaining. Wills goes spelunking into Nixon's Whittier prehistory and there finds Frank Nixon, his father, "gloomy and argumentative, black Irishman moving in cloud, with frequent lightnings out of it." His late mother, Wills reports, displayed a "colored photo-portrait of Richard, which was, when one threw the switch, lit electrically from behind like a hamburger king's." There is some truth but also a certain theatrical silliness in Wills' conclusion: "Nixon...