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...that ophthalmological advance. Wise had learned from his father, a California poultry farmer, that chickens with cataracts suffer reduced vision and also lose their tendency to peck one another to death, a lamentable chicken habit that can result in the destruction of up to 25% of. a tightly penned flock. In fact, the elder Wise had experimented with distorting lenses to reproduce the effects of cataracts and discovered that transparent colored lenses worked just as well...
...mostly we're here to study, not party," Hammond says. Another first-year student, who graduated from Harvard and asked not to be identified, says, "North House, on its deepest, quietest weekday has more going on than Vanderbilt does on the average weekend. Most people who graduated from Harvard flock back to Cambridge on their time off," he says, adding that "others, who have girl friends or boy friends in New England, are willing to travel long distances to get away from Vanderbilt for a while...
Even so, the earth's behavior is becoming much less mysterious. As late as 1750, the Bishop of London told his flock that two recent quakes were warnings from an angry deity. Today, scientists prefer another explanation, an all-encompassing view of the earth known as the theory of plate tectonics. It holds that the planet's surface consists of a dozen or so restless plates, each about 70 miles thick. Their movements explain volcanoes, the rise of mountains and the drift of continents. They account for quakes as well, most of which seem to occur where...
...Maggie Miller-Kleinhenz, now includes Lena Schmidt, 73, who regularly goes downstairs from the center to help teach embroidery to seventh-graders. "Embroidery requires a lot of individual attention, and Lena makes it easier for me," says Miller-Kleinhenz. "It's been fun to watch the little kids flock around her, and I can learn something about patience...
...real surface. 514 revolves just inside that ring. Like dogs herding sheep along a narrow road, the outer moon seems to be keeping ring particles from flying off into space, while the inner moon stops them from falling toward Saturn-as one scientist put it, "controlling an unruly flock...