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...archaeologist, I appreciate the publicity your cover article gave the field, but as a practicing pollen analyst, I feel obliged to admonish your Science editor for his reference to "fossilized grains of pollen." The connotation of this statement is that pollen grains become petrified with time, as the remains of a fossilized plant or animal, and so are preserved as stone. One of the wonders of biology is that the exterior surface of most types of pollen grains is amazingly resistant to chemical action. For millions of years, pollen which has avoided destruction by becoming buried retains its original organic...
...Webster's says fossilized means "converted into a fossil," which is "any trace of an animal or plant preserved in the earth's crust...
Theological Fossil. On the theory that getting people talking about the church is a big advantage over the customary apathy, Stockwood has encouraged dissent and nonconformity among his 600 clergymen. In a sermon on the existing moral code at Southwark Cathedral last March, his canon librarian, the Rev. Douglas Rhymes, preached that Christ never suggested that "marriage is the only possible occasion of any expression of physical relationship," and charged on to say that "much of the prejudice against homosexuality is on the ground that it is unnatural-but for whom? Certainly not for the homosexual...
...book Honest to God, arguing that Christianity needs a new idea of God. And another Southwark clergyman, the Rev. John Pearce-Higgins, recently took arms against some of the 39 Articles-the declaration of Anglican faith. He called the 400-year-old Articles "in the nature of a theological fossil" and announced that he assented to them under protest...
Lower-unit-cost reactors and higher output make atomic power closely competitive with fossil fuels in such high-cost areas as California and New England. After three years, the Yankee Atomic Electric plant at Rowe, Mass., is producing power within 1 mill per kw-h of conventional costs (about 10 mills). Pacific Gas & Electric's first atomic plant at Humboldt Bay, Calif., which went critical two months ago, is expected to equal natural-gas costs at 9 mills. P. G. & E. plans to build twelve more atomic power plants by 1980, and the AEC estimates that commercial atomic power...