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...north is a simple ecosystem with few distinct species. While a lake in California may contain several hundred species of phytoplankton, an Arctic lake has only a dozen. This lack of diversity, in ecological terms, is tantamount to vulnerability. Any species can be wiped out and no other species will take its place. The result is expressed in a word that many Alaskans have come to hate: fragility. Says Walter Hickel: "It used to be the hostile, frozen north; now it's the goddamn fragile tundra...
...should be able to join it, forming a double-stranded hybrid. He mixed minute amounts of both molecules and whirled them in a centrifuge for three days. Because the density of RNA is different from that of DNA, the strands gradually separated in the test tube, forming two distinct layers. To his delight there also appeared a third layer, which proved that a product of intermediate density-the combined RNA-DNA molecule-had indeed formed...
...result, the role of Commander in Chief has very nearly become a doctrine distinct from the other powers of the presidency. Many scholars contend that the Commander in Chief was never meant to have so broad a charter. The drafters of the Constitution gave the President that title to ensure civilian control over the military, and to allow him to respond immediately to a sudden, direct attack upon the U.S. Any protracted conflict was to be authorized by a congressional declaration...
...mistake in the first place. It is not so much that El Dorado's people support the war as that they are angered by radical attacks on the country, the President, the armed forces. The President, they argue, must know what he is doing. One gets the distinct impression that if he changed his stance-for instance, if he were to call the war a mistake and announce a much faster exit -El Dorado would go along with him. Most people instinctively stand with the President. Richard Nixon himself, apparently a passionless man. provokes a passionless, no-alternative kind...
...Bunting has suggested that there be some form of women's organization for all the undergraduates, an expanded Radcliffe Union of Students. RUS may not be the ideal group for this function, but it also might be revitalized by having a distinct function within the community...