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...basis of all biology. It's as old as life itself." So why single out the bombardier for harboring dangerous chemicals in its body? he asks. Why not the human digestive tract, for example? There the stomach walls are protected from the hydrochloric acid within by a layer of mucus, which, if damaged, would allow the potent acid to attack the stomach walls and be released into the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drafting the Bombardier Beetle ^ | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...three-mile-high peak and that the surfaces of both moons were pocked with white spots from which streaks of bright material radiated. To Bradford Smith, head of the Voyager imaging team, the spots were evidence that meteorite impacts had pulverized the gray surface, exposed an underlying layer of ice and spewed it out in all directions. The haze covering the Uranian north polar area,* he suggested, may be smog--not unlike the Los Angeles variety--resulting from a photochemical reaction caused by sunlight acting upon gases in the planet's atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Crescendo of Discovery | 2/3/1985 | See Source »

...involved, in works like The Dream, 1921, was surpassed by no other artist. The amputee on a ladder with the fish slung round his neck, the war veteran blowing his tin trumpet, the catatonic blond girl--in their mingled density and strangeness, they seem like quotations from some permanent layer of German consciousness. All the more so because Beckmann thought very hard about his own cultural heritage. His figures, with their polelike limbs and mouths like gashes, their awkward eloquence of gesture (long on pathos and aggression, short on grace), step right out of late medieval German sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Psychological Realist in a Bad Age | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

They also argued that it was unnecessary to encourage more students to participate at the cost of adding another layer of bureaucracy...

Author: By Margaret C. Ervin, | Title: Council Hears Report on Transfer Housing Policy | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

Santa will have to stock up on his computers and technological supplies this year to satisfy his fans: Menzel Professor of Astrophysics David Layer has requested "a piece of word processing software that detects logical errors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Secret Files | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

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