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...final tale, Simon Winchester's poignant coda to a life on the move, Coming Home in Massachusetts, celebrates tilling the soil as an act that instantly turns a place into a home. "In that moment I was utterly hooked ... Tractor smoke, fine Syrian tobacco, blue alfalfa and wild mint made a cocktail of, well, probably pheromones ... that produced for me a true olfactory epiphany. It was as though in that one instant the earth sang out: ?Dig holes here. Put down roots...
...years," writes Watson, "he could treat me almost as a fellow collaborator rather than as a distant acquaintance." In the course of that conversation, Wilkins trotted out one of Franklin's images of the B form of DNA. Labeled Photograph 51, it was her best--and, writes Watson, "the instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race. The pattern was unbelievably simpler than those obtained previously. Moreover, the black cross of reflections which dominated the picture could arise only from a helical structure...
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...Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., scientists turned away from their remarkable new photographs of the distant planet Uranus and stared, stunned, at the telecast from Florida. "We all knew it could happen one day," said one, "but, God, who would have believed it?" It had happened. In one fiery instant, the nation's complacent attitude toward manned space flight had evaporated at the incredible sight in the skies over Cape Canaveral. --TIME...
...since overwhelming scientific evidence has emerged to prove that life does indeed begin at conception, the case of Roe is obsolete. From the instant of conception, the unborn child is a living human being. He or she possesses a genetic code with 46 chromosomes, which contain complete information for characteristics such as gender, eye and hair color, skin tone, bone structure and the susceptibility to certain diseases...