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Life on earth began more than 2 billion years ago, but only in a few places are primitive fossils clear enough to give paleontologists any faint clue to what that life was like. Most rocks that date from those early years have been deeply buried for so long and subjected to so much heat and pressure that all organic traces they once contained have been turned to shapeless specks of carbon. One notable exception is a hard, black, ancient rock found near Gunflint Lake in western Ontario, which somehow escaped this rough treatment. In the magazine Science, Paleontologist Elso...
...Asbell does not seriously try to answer this question. His new improved American is an acquisitor of the near future, a man with a decent salary and job security and indeter- minate felings. One wonders whether the Madison Avenue cliche used to describe the near-future man is a clue to the sources or the content of his values...
Lost Position. The game ends; Federov's reflections dissipate, having amounted to no computable sum of meaning or meaninglessness. The reader, if he finishes the novel, finishes it without the faintest notion of why the author began it. To this riddle there is no clue in Shaw's recent pronouncement that a writer "is engaged in the long process of putting his whole life on paper; he is on a journey and he is reporting in, giving his position at certain moments of that journey: 'This is where I think I am and this is what this...
...know whether Hodgkin's disease is a tumor caused by infection or a true cancer resulting from changes in the reproductive mechanism of cells in the lymphatic system. And because of their inability to decide between these two theories, they grasp at every straw that may offer a clue to the cause of the disease. Such a clue has been reported by the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston: two medical students who lived in the same room, but at different times, developed Hodgkin's disease within a few months, or possibly weeks. Could that mean that Hodgkin...
...rising clergyman can win a reputation for wisdom in his sermons by using such phrases as "Christ-centered" and "faith of our fathers." Another favorite phrase is "holiness unto the Lord. No one has a clue to what this means, but it is one of the most soul-satisfying phrases in the lexicon." References to sin and sinners are always welcome, for they conjure up "images of orgies and black lingerie." Nothing makes the congregation feel so good as singing hymns like C. Austin Miles's In the Garden, which mentions the first personal pronoun 27 times...