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...billion years ago, scientists have duplicated the creation of many of the basic chemical building blocks of life. But one compound essential to the continuance of life has never been found in the primeval atmosphere of the laboratory: chlorophyll, which enables plants to use the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into the food that plants and animals need. Now the missing compound may well have been created, further encouraging scientists to believe that they are on the right track toward understanding how life arose spontaneously when the world was still young...
Beyond the Teacher. Another scholarly convert to trots is Dante Expert Aldo Bernardo, humanities chairman of S.U.N.Y.'s Binghamton campus, who once considered it criminal to read The Divine Comedy in anything but the original. "If the kids have to be exposed to an interpretation of this stuff," he explains now, "it had just as well be mine." Actually, as Beebe sees it, some of the opposition has come from teachers' fear that the guides "may put into the hands of the students more information about a given work than the teacher knows himself." Since many...
...that went into the huge hydroelectric project but also a symbol of what has become a growing Soviet penetration of the Arab world. The penetration is largely in the form of military and economic assistance combined with a cultural drive, and the Russians have so far been unable to convert much of it into solid political power. In an area that the West has often found difficult and unrewarding to deal with, the penetration also brings the Russians as many problems as opportunities. Still, the Russians think it important to establish themselves firmly in the Arab world-and that...
Mehta's attachment to Israel and all things Jewish is even closer than his bond with Vienna. "I would convert to Judaism," he often quips, "if the operation didn't hurt so much"-but he claims that he follows his own faith devoutly. When Barenboim married Jacqueline Du Pre in Israel last summer, Mehta flew over, donned a skullcap and prayer shawl, and joined the Orthodox Jewish ceremony as "Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak...
...Russian weapon, the fractional orbit bombardment system, (FOBS), travels in an orbital path until it swoops down on a target under the impact of a breaking device. It would be simplicity itself to convert the FOBS into a multi-orbital system...