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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bacterial Ecology. Every living species is adapted to a given range of habitats. The set of bacterial strains called E. coli thrive only in the vertebrate gut, and because these cells die out rather quickly in water the E. coli count of a pond or a well is a reliable index of its continuing fecal contamination. In the gut there is intense Darwinian competition between strains, depending on such variables as growth rate, growth requirements, ability to scavenge traces of food, adherence to the gut linings and resistance to antimicrobial factors in the host. Hence most novel strains are quickly...

Author: By Bernard D. Davis, | Title: Darwin, Pasteur and the Andromeda Strain | 2/2/1977 | See Source »

...White House. In his defense, Baker claimed that the funds had been allocated to the state chairmen, who failed to use all of them. Still, a political realist, Baker dropped out of the race early last week. Said he: "I didn't have the fire in my gut to go through with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Everyone's Second Choice | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...here's what he'll say: "The first time I saw Fred Astaire dance I was transfixed...after the first time I saw the Seventh Seal I couldn't win a chess game for a month...the first time I saw Abbott and Costello I nearly busted a gut...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: The Thirty-Six or Thirty-Seven Greatest Movies of All Time | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...must have been the most roaring gut," Freund said...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Freund Speaks At Leverett On 3 Justices | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Shore did not agree with Fenichell's view, but she said that part of the reason for such selectivity "might be to discourage people who want to take writing courses as a gut...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: The New Yorker Model: Writing to Please Harvard | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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