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...nonmetallic meteorites -the sort that are supposed to contain traces of "exo-life"-he ground the material and boiled it, first in water, then in alcohol, then for ten hours in dilute sulphuric acid. After that, he simmered his sample for 22 hours in hydrochloric acid. The well cooked extract contained a rich assortment of chemicals characteristic of living organisms, including amino acids and simple sugars...
Instead of searching vainly to define the essence of man, we should try to extract from man all the qualities he has in common with the animals; the residue will be the human quality, Vercors said. We share with animals our instincts and desires, but science, philosophy and art--the expressions of the internal search for what we are--are uniquely human...
...candidate hadn't shot himself up in a hunting accident and if [Rocky Ford Candidate] Anne Thompson hadn't withdrawn at the last minute when she found she was to become a mother," go-getting State Republican Chairman Jean K. Tool, 41, proclaimed his intention to extract from all future candidates a pledge "to give up hunting during the campaign and to refrain from activities that might lead to pregnancy...
...known when his father took him to hear their small artillery on Sunday afternoons. Enlisting his wife and 17 students, Dr. Schildknecht searched a limestone region near Bayreuth and collected a good supply of the beetles. After training himself in the art of insect surgery, he learned how to extract intact the complicated plumbing in their behinds...
...need for expensive new hydroelectric plants, the gas find improved prospects for development of New Zealand industry, previously stunted for want of a cheap domestic fuel source. Some New Zealanders even launched into heady talk of using the gas to generate the power for electric furnaces that could extract iron ore from the hitherto useless mineral-laced sands of Taranaki province. But in the short run, what raised New Zealand's hopes the most was Holyoake's report that the Kapuni gas carried with it a substantial quantity of light oil which, if it can be fed into...