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...much more rewarding than spearing them. Another major factor has been the jet age, which has brought the coral reefs of Fiji and other faraway sources of exotic fish within a few hours of the U.S. This shorter travel time, plus new sleep drugs which make fish inert, thus reducing their oxygen intake by two-thirds, means that more fish can be transported in less water-and hence sold more cheaply...
...League may well be the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. For decades, this ivy masked a nagging inferiority complex. Outsiders mistook Penn for a state university; insiders yearned to rename it Franklin after Ben, its patron. Though blessed with great graduate schools, Penn was cursed with inert trustees, inept presidents and indolent rejects from Yale and Harvard. "The plaything of the Main Line," Penn dreamed of past glory while dying of the slums that choked its campus and strangled its spirit...
Ever since World War II-even through ten years of Soviet occupation-the Austrian government has been run jointly by the conservative People's Party and the Socialist Party, like two polite, equally weighted cousins on an inert seesaw. So scrupulously balanced is the coalition and the Proporz system of dividing up the jobs that, according to Viennese table talk, if there is one People's Party Putz-frau (charwoman) in a government building, there must be a Socialist Putzfrau too. After last November's elections, balance became stalemate; the two big parties have been haggling over...
...Hofmann then synthesized an eleven-acid segment and joined it with the rest of the enzyme. This substance proved wholly inert. Apparently amino acids Nos. 12 and 13 that he had just eliminated are at the "active site" of the enzyme, like the cutting tool of a lathe...
Ryan's first victory against Tammany came in 1957, when upper West Side Democrats chose him as district leader. By 1960 he was popular enough to wrest the Congressional nomination for New York's 20th district from Tammany's inert Ludwig Teller. This fall, when Tammany and upstate Republicans reapportioned him into a largely unfamiliar district, Ryan scored a strong victory over De Sapio's man, Herbert Zelenko...