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Weaver also revived the long-dormant idea of federal rent subsidies for the ailing and aged. That proposal narrowly passed the Congress last year, but the eligibility regulations were so carelessly written by the HHFA that "hardship" cases with as much as $25,000 in net assets could have qualified for rent help. Congress refused to appropriate funds for it, and many people thought that Weaver had thereby destroyed his chances of becoming HUD Secretary. Weaver now airily dismisses it all as "purely a printer's slip...
...hardly share your optimism that "Spain is an awakening land." The brutal fact is that Spain still remains dormant, a tragedy to the Western world since 1939. The alliance of the Spanish church, the military leaders and the monarchists will certainly find the means to continue the vicious circle in which the country finds itself. Ideas and men make a nation, and unfortunately Spain has neither...
...that under the Indian constitution, all persons are equal, regardless of sex. She is, however, vitally interested in improving the lot of Indian women. "If you study history," she once said, "you will find that where women have risen, that country attained a high position, and wherever they remained dormant, that country slipped back...
Archaeological folklore is enhanced by fanciful yarns about an ancient Pharaoh's tomb containing dried seeds that sprouted when planted and watered-thousands of years after they were first interred. The truth of the tale has yet to be proved, but common chickweed seeds have germinated after lying dormant for more than three decades; Oriental lotus seeds, after about 1,000 years. Such long survival, despite heat, cold or even radiation, is managed by the seed when it enters anabiosis -a state of suspended animation in which its metabolism stops, its skin hardens and thickens, and its water content...
Fascinated by the dormant seed, botanists have long been frustrated in their efforts to see or photograph it clearly. Preparing slides for microscopic inspection usually necessitated the use of liquid solutions that immediately revived anabiotic cells, altering the dormant structures. Now, because of the perseverance of German Botanist Ernst Perner, several theories about anabiosis have finally been confirmed. By using dry osmic-acid vapors to fix and stain his slides, Perner has successfully photographed anabiotic pea cells with an electron microscope...