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...began ordering up production of the two chains of insulin. When the bacteria divided, each new generation of E. coli retained the insulin-making ability. Boasted City of Hope's Arthur Riggs: "We have tricked the bacteria." All that he and his colleagues had left to do was extract the two chains and join them to make whole molecules of human insulin...
EDUCATION In his 1949 book Catechism in Crumbs, offering advice to religious educators, Luciani wrote: "Michelangelo was asked, How do you produce statues that are so full of life? He responded: The marble already contains the statues; it is just a matter of extracting them. Like marble, children are rough material: you can extract gentlemen, heroes, even saints." Last year Luciani publicly opposed the proposed new concordat between the Vatican and Italy because it would remove compulsory religion classes from public schools: "By decapitating religious culture, will we not decapitate culture as well...
...dark star, this Einsteinian black hole?the name was not coined by Physicist Wheeler until the 1960s?had far more finality. Since relativity forbids anything to move faster than light, an idea unknown in classic Newtonian physics, escape was impossible. All the energy in the world could not extract an object from a black hole...
Until last spring, the Comoro Islands were known, if at all, chiefly as a source of ilang-ilang, an exotic flower whose extract is widely used in French perfumes. Now the Comoros are called the Mercenary Isles. Last spring the four tiny specks of volcanic ash off the coast of Mozambique were invaded by a motley troop of white soldiers of fortune, who took over the hapless islands lock, stock, and ilang-ilang...
...hissed at the enemy. Colonial soldiers taunted: "The King's a queen." Indeed, spirits run so high at these mock fights-marking all the important Revolutionary War engagements, starting in 1974-that individual soldiers are not given ramrods. The reason: an overexcited fighter might forget to extract a ramrod from his musket before firing, sending it flying like a spear...