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With the exception of Holland, which is a zone of moderate intensity, all the centres of last week's disturbance lay in the areas where severe earthquakes must be expected on the basis of past performance. The major earthquake belt is an irregular band crossing Eurasia from Spain to China and bordering the entire rim of the Pacific...
...bitter disillusionment of the period is brilliantly expressed in the drawing of A Woman by Otto Dix. There is nothing soft or feminine in the face. Her coarse skin and irregular features express suffering, her eyes have seen the horrors of war. The work is a passionate attack on the brutality and stupidity of modern civilization. Just as forceful in its attack but far more humorous is the drawing by George Grosz called "Berlin Cafe" The bourgeoisie of the German capital is satirized with vitriolic fire. Portrayals of the sufferings of the lower classes appear in the prints and drawings...
...digested food goes out into the intestines. Pathologists notice that every ulcer or cancer of the stomach always distorts the neat parallelism of the wrinkles. But they notice it only after the patient is dead and the autopsist has done his work. If x-ray pictures had shown the irregular wrinkles, the doctor might have saved the patient before it was too late...
...Illicit sexual indulgence," report the Gluecks, "was the chief form of their adolescent and early-adult misbehavior. All but 2% of our women had been sexually irregular prior to their commitment to the reformatory. . . . In fact, a fifth of the girls had their first unconventional sex experience before they were 15, and their average age at such time was but 17 years. Illicit sexuality was practically simultaneous with the onset of other forms of delinquency. . . . Four-fifths of the girls entered upon unconventional sexual practices voluntarily. In the vast majority of cases these erotic adventures were shared with casual acquaintances...
...Theophilus Shickel Painter of University of Texas found cross bands on the giant chromosomes which he thought might have something to do with gene locality. Then affable, bushy-haired Dr. Bridges refined his photomicrographic technique to such a point that the chromosomes appeared as twisted strings of flat, irregular beads, and the cross bands were seen to be mosaics of infinitesimal cylinder ends. Dr. Bridges did not identify either bands or cylinders with the genes themselves, but by last week three known and one unknown gene had been traced to a set of four bands, and the others, Dr. Bridges...