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Gebel-Williams' ability to communicate with animals has made him reputedly the highest-paid performer in the circus world and, to the circus management, their most valuable box office draw. His life is insured for $2,000,000, though few who see him urging tigers to leap aboard elephants would care to have money hanging on his longevity. For Gebel-Williams it is pure joy. "When I get together with my tigers, all my worries vanish," he says...
Last Saturday night the water polo team got drunk and swam up and down the Charles River. While the group played leap frog on the Wecks and Lars Anderson Bridges, somewhere its competition in the second Boston invitational championship was fast asleep...
...five soldiers leap over the closed trolley doors and pile into a departing car which, by coincidence, carries the Honorable Strom Thurmond (R-S. C.). "Let me introduce our motley crew," Redden says quickly, reaching over the glass divider. "We're what you might call cannon fodder. We're the ones you send to get shot up over there, and they say you're a hot, so why don't you do something about getting this war ended...
That something, theorists believed, was chemical. Scientists had long known that chemical as well as electrical activity goes on in brain neurons: these cells carry on metabolism and protein synthesis like other body cells. Researchers soon learned that the leap of message-carrying nerve impulses across the gap between one cell and another takes place only with the help of chemical transmitter substances. One of these, acetylcholine, was promptly identified, and investigators began to look for other brain chemicals, specifically for varieties that might contain memories...
...quantum leap in man's abilities to reshape himself evokes a sense of uneasiness, a memory of Eden. Eat of the forbidden fruit, God warns, and "you shall surely die." Eat, promises the serpent, and "you shall be like...