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...containers-that sounds better than barf bags," he says. "I haven't found any tasteful-no pun intended-way of exhibiting them, but I still have them. They don't take up much room, and they're a little page in aviation history." Now, to a layman, 117 bags might seem enough. But Sweeting confides that he has just struck a deal to procure 300 more bags from a private collector in California...
...days, some 3 billion or so years ago. DNA molecules lead to bacteria, which in turn are transformed into protozoans. Over hundreds of millions of years, the oceans begin to swarm with increasingly complicated forms of life. The records from those days are scanty at best, and, to the layman, one fossil looks much like another. There may be books in running brooks and sermons in stones, but they do not translate very well into...
...assembled ambassadors, ministers and government officials could barely conceal their reaction. Dramatic as the proposal may have sounded to a layman, it was nothing more than a dusted-off version of an idea Brezhnev first offered in a speech in East Berlin more than two years ago when he was still trying to thwart NATO'S decision to install new weapons in response to the Soviet buildup of SS-20 missiles aimed at Europe. Brezhnev, who was making his first trip to the West since the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, had been successfully upstaged by Ronald Reagan...
Hofstadter, a computer scientist, and his collaborator Daniel C. Dennett, a philosophy expert, avoid technical jargon and esoteric language throughout the book. Hofstadter is, or course, well practiced at writing for the layman; he authors a regular column in Scientific American and won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, Godel, EScher, and Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Working with Hofstadter, Dennett--author of Branistorms:- Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology--expands on his own explanations of artificial intelligence, computers and the unity or divisibility of the soul...
DIED. Charles Parlin, 83, former co-president of the World Council of Churches and former president of the World Methodist Council; in New York City. A staunch ecumenist, Parlin was the first American layman to be named to the six-member presidium of the World Council of Churches, where he served from 1961 to 1968. A lawyer, he defended Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam when the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated charges in 1953 that Oxnam had a Communist Party affiliation...