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...lowliest of nature's creatures, a rod-shaped beastie less than a ten-thousandth of an inch long. Its normal habitat is the intestine. Its functions there are still basically unknown. Yet this tiny parcel of protoplasm has now become the center of a stormy controversy that has divided the scientific community, stirred fears-often farfetched-about tampering with nature, and raised the prospect of unprecedented federal and local controls on basic scientific research. Last week the bacterium known to scientists as Escherichia coli* (E. coli, for short) even became a preoccupation at the highest levels of government...
...Named for its discoverer, the German pediatrician Theodor Escherich, who isolated it from feces in 1885, and for its habitat, the colon...
...perception of existence. In this decade, up to now, the most promising young dramatists all seem to fall within the confines of middling merit. What knits some recent playwrights together more excitingly than their works is a sense that they are stage animals prowling their natural and necessary habitat. One such prowling indigene is Albert Innaurato...
...that faces our world in the coming hundred years represents problems of universal character and dimension-problems such as the widening gap between the developed world and the Third World, nuclear proliferation, the conservation of natural resources, the nationalization of the use of energy, the pollution of the human habitat, the achievement of national population levels, universal cooperation in the atmosphere and in the seas, and the world food problem...
...rest of the production values match the special effects. Kong's South Seas habitat was a remote spot in the Hawaiian Islands-where a honeymoon couple went to sleep on the beach one night, convinced they were removed from all worldly intrusions. They were awakened, alas, at dawn by the arrival of Dino's minions in four helicopters...