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...then president. All members have a double job: first, to learn from experts how to handle their own children; second, to reach other parents and pass the knowledge along. Mrs. Davidson showed how well she had learned when Patty began to walk at 16 months (many blind babies still crawl at 24 months). She learned to teach Patty to feed herself. "You stand behind the youngster," she explains, "and ease her into a regular rhythm-dip, slide, and in the mouth; dip, slide, and in the mouth." Last summer Mrs. Davidson got Patty, 2½, accepted in a nursery school...
...meditate. Get on your knees and pray!" Kimbrell replied, with tears in his eyes: "Please God, make me a man from now on." He was marched to meals with other prisoners. He was asked to sit, experimentally, in the electric chair, did so, and said: "It made my flesh crawl." He was introduced to one Carl De Wolf, soon to be electrocuted for shooting a Tulsa detective. De Wolf rose to the occasion too, and said: "I was just a punk like you when I first got into trouble...
Lydella does no harm to crops and attacks no insect except the corn borer. The females tenderly place their infant maggots at the entrances of the corn borers' tunnels. Then the maggots, guided by the peculiar genius of their kind, crawl into the tunnels, find the borers and destroy them by devouring their innards...
Some scientists are neatness itself, but Professor Talbot H. Waterman works in a wonderful mess. His room at Yale's Osborn Zoological Laboratory is a tangle of wires, tubes, electrical equipment, optical instruments, pipes, tools and gadgets. And all over the place crawl the stars of the show: live horseshoe crabs. Dr. Waterman is trying to find out how arthropods (crabs, insects, etc.) navigate. The Office of Naval Research is so interested that it has him under contract...
...everything we can to capture the Chinamen, but they have been told we eat prisoners, and won't surrender. We are all hunters. We like to take the enemy alive, but it is becoming very difficult in battle." On patrol, added Selassie, it was easier. "We crawl in the brush a leetle, we look a leetle, we wait a leetle, then we crawl a leetle more and pretty soon we have a prisoner...