Word: earth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time work was scheduled to begin in 1971 was budgeted at $323 million. As plans stand, Tenn-Tom, now priced at $1.6 billion, will require the construction of six dams and eleven locks, digging a 27-mile channel through the foothills of the Tennessee ridge and moving more earth than did the construction of the Panama Canal...
...Prakash, 26, a cloth merchant: "The election result shows that dictatorship cannot acquire any roots in this country." Declared M.C. Sachdeva, 27 a government clerk. "To my generation, freedom began today, not in 1947." The Janata victory, added a fire brigade employe "has come mythical Lord Rama descending to earth to destroy the evil demon Indira...
...life begin on the primordial earth? Scientists looking for clues within the living cell have been stymied by a catch-22. All living organisms are composed largely of proteins, which consist of strings of amino acids manufactured within cells in small granules called ribosomes. But ribosomes are themselves highly complex protein structures that obviously evolved long after protein first appeared. Then how, without the complex ribosome "factories," was primitive protein produced? Last week, in a report published in the journal Origin of Life, a team of molecular biologists suggested an answer. If the hypothesis is correct, says...
...young English art student in Tokyo found himself at a gathering of Japanese sculptors, painters and poets. Their party game consisted of decorating unglazed raku (stoneware pottery), which could be painted, glazed and fired within an hour. The foreigner was handed a plate. He was nonplused. "What on earth does one put on a pot? . . . I made a drawing of a parrot. They plunged it into some glaze and it turned quite white; I thought they didn't like my drawing, but then I saw everyone's plate went through this process. The kiln was opened with tongs...
...about what her friends were saying. Something about boys as I remember it. The audience was getting a good laugh. But then suddenly, I noticed that the girls had stopped talking and were looking fearfully down at their friends in the audience, and I guess what they saw were earth creatures, not friends. So, off ran these two hypnotized girls through the back door of the room, screaming bloody murder in moon talk...