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...trying to separate certain plant pigments, Tsvett discovered that they could be differentiated easily by letting a mixture wash down the side of a column of limestone. The pigments-each sticking to the surface in a characteristic way -flowed down the stone at markedly different rates, enabling Tsvett to distinguish them from one another. Over the years, chromatography has been refined to separate countless other substances-colorless as well as colored, vapors as well as liquids...
When it comes to Supreme Court appointments, though, some Presidents have failed to distinguish between high and low politics. Justices do not leave at the end of a presidential term; they stay on the bench as long as they wish to - shaping the nation for years. Thus picking good men requires a high order of presidential disinterest. Ultimately, says Yale Law Professor Fred Rodell, "the way to get better Supreme Court Justices is to elect better Presidents...
...thing the N.E.B. could still use is an edition with more complete explanatory notes of the kind that distinguish the Jerusalem Bible. Even so, Jesuit Biblical Scholar John L. McKenzie of the University of Notre Dame, who predicts that the New English Bible will be quickly accepted for Catholic church use, praises it as "the most successful modern-language version I have seen." Other eminent biblical scholars, who have read advance copies of the complete N.E.B., agree. With such endorsements, the initial Oxford-Cambridge press run of 1,000,000 copies should be scarcely the beginning...
Kahn does distinguish between tenured and junior faculty. He credits some of the young faculty members with sensitivity towards the racist and militaristic aspects of the university and endorses their complaints. But Kahn sees junior faculty as an essentially powerless group prevented from implementing necessary changes by a rigid hierarchy whose top levels are complacently ruled by tenured professors. The few senior faculty who did attempt to take part in resolving the crisis after the disruptions began are properly credited by Kahn for their effort. But according to Kahn the majority of the tenured faculty succeeded only in tying...
...enjoys writing poetry. "Why else would anyone write poetry?" he asked. True, some poets do say they find writing painful: "While climbing a mountain, you can it's painful, but afterwards, in the long run, you say it's fun." When writing a poem he does not distinguish between form and content. "At any given moment, I have a certain subject in my mind which is preoccupying me," he said. "The subject looks for a form to incorporate it, and it looks for a type of form that it can incorporate. When the two meet-you have a poem...