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...every inning he worked, but he somehow managed to find the good pitch forget the lucky break when he needed it. Cleveland gave the Twins nine singles in the first five innings, but Minnesota stranded eight of those runners. The Twins got a run in the first on Bobby Darwin's base-hit, scoring Steve Braun...
Microbiologists Roy Cameron and Frank Morelli made their discovery by accident. The researchers, now at the Darwin Research Institute in Dana Point, Calif., had been working for the past three years on a project aimed at evaluating the environmental impact of deep drilling on Antarctica. As part of their work, they regularly analyzed the material brought up by the drills to determine what surface contaminants had seeped into the soil. Some experiments conducted on cores taken from layers of soil, rock and ice that had been laid down between 10,000 and 1 million years ago produced startling results. Several...
Brecht had read a German novel about Chicago and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle just before he started to write In the Jungle of Cities. A jungle is an apt, if overused, metaphor for the most grotesque, competitive aspects of a city--John D. Rockefeller, invoking Darwin to describe his goals for the capitalist economy, suggested how apt the comparison can be--and Brecht populates his jungle with Baboon and another henchman cleverly named Worm to emphasize the point. But otherwise he ignores the real psychology of city life in order to concentrate on the petty idiosyncracies of his characters...
...that view the protection of the first amendment. The first amendment was designed precisely to avoid that kind of tyrannical usurpation of unpopular minority views. The history of ideas is replete with examples of unpopular views which later proved to have value: the views of Jesus, Copernicus, Luther, Diderot, Darwin, Marx and Freud, to name just a few, met considerable resistance, not to mention censorship, at their inception. Whether or not there proves to be any value in pornography's view, it is not the business of our courts, in principle, to regulate the flow of ideas--only to protect...
...guiding inspiration for the rest of his life. What promised to be a stellar academic career faded quickly the following year when Wells began to find radical politics more interesting than intellectual pursuits. At the same time, inspired by Huxley, he was cutting his teeth on Marxism--Darwin's theory of evolution...