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This was the start of life, and chemists have often tried to copy the process themselves. They have mixed the proper gases in a laboratory flask, put water in the bottom to simulate the ocean, and shot electric sparks into it to do the work of the ancient lightning. When they analyzed the water, they found many an interesting chemical, some of them characteristic of living organisms, but they did not find nucleic acid, the essential substance at the heart of life...
Course instructors first announced the loss in lecture yesterday, requesting any student who knew something about the flask to report it. It has not been officially decided what the students involved will be asked to do about the experiment. Lab men said informally that they doubted students would be asked to begin again, however...
...weaves through the Hansel-and-Gretel-like Harz Mountain forests. Near Braunlage, I came upon two miserably wet East German guards standing alongside the brook that separates the two zones. From my side of the barbed wire, I offered them a cigarette and then a drink from a pocket flask. "Ja, bitte," they said, and I threw both cigarettes and flask across the brook and barrier...
They puffed deeply on the cigarettes and pulled appreciatively on the vodka, then threw the cigarette pack and flask back and disappeared into the forest...
...dozens of cities, towns and resort centers across the U.S. last week. At Ocean City, Md., police used K-9 dogs to break up a mob of 2,000 beer-swilling students. Many had come to town with mischief aforethought: their cars bore signs that read, "Fill Your Flask and Come to the Second Annual Ocean City Riot." At Wildwood, N.J., where merrymaking teen-agers did $1,500 worth of damage to one hotel, police arrested 160 over the weekend, imposed $6,000 worth of fines for disorderly conduct. At Clermont, Ind., near the scene of the national drag-racing...