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...with a nutrient broth. Within weeks, there appeared a strange microorganism, umbrella-shaped, with radiating spokes and a stalk terminating in a bulb. Though unfamiliar with anything like it, Siegel noted that the organism flourished amid conditions resembling the ammonia-laden atmosphere that probably prevailed on earth when the earliest forms of life were developing, some 3 billion years...
...tale was given its first great artistic shaping by Sophocles, whose dramatization remains the best known. Although his Antigone concludes the story presented in Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colouns, it was written before the other two; it is, in fact, the next-to-earliest of his surviving works. Early or not, it is a supreme master-piece, fully deserving of the first prize that it copped; and it contains a higher proportion of lyric writing than any of his other works...
...peace groups--including the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee, Mass Pax, the Mobilization Committee, and the Boston Draft Resistance Group -- have alerted their members to listen to the radio for the earliest announcement of the President's plans...
...earliest enthusiasms was for Karl Marx, but his interest was more scientific than ideological. Marx seemed to be talking about realities, hidden behind surface thought, that controlled some of man's responses to his environment. A chance appointment as professor of sociology at the University of Sāo Paulo dispatched Lévi-Strauss in 1935 to Brazil. The new arrival's intellectual curiosity shortly lured him into the jungle on anthropological field trips. The experience permanently altered his appreciation...
...placed on special diets. At the same time, an equal number of men with similar characteristics would serve as "controls" by continuing to eat as they please. Even if the Heart Institute acted immediately on the recommendation, however, no decisive results could be expected until 1975 at the earliest...