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Blue Fire. Other stories examine what might happen when it is man's turn to explore other worlds, possibly to encounter life forms both inferior and superior to his own. One chilling short novel published in 1954, Lester del Rey's For I Am a Jealous People, told of a future in which mankind comes up against an ambitious race of conquerors with whom God has made a new Covenant-against earth men. Ray Bradbury's story of "The Fire Balloons" in The Illustrated Man tells of a gentler encounter, when two Episcopal missionaries on Mars discover...
...monks and nuns living silently and praying ceaselessly behind cloister walls has always seemed, at best, a kind of regrettable eccentricity-harmless enough, but useless too. Yet the Roman Catholic Church, and such Protestant sympathizers as the Monks of Taizé in France, have insisted that the contemplative life is a special and noble vocation. The fathers of Vatican II declared in a 1965 decree that "communities that are entirely dedicated to contemplation are a glory of the church and a wellspring of heavenly graces." While some adaptation to modern life might be in order, they affirmed, the contemplative life...
...people seeking advice and consolation. Thus the changes suggested by the Vatican had been anticipated by the Dachau Carmelites. Such changes, says Mother Gemma, "are based on the need to intensify the impact, yet to leave the basic idea untouched." Foremost is the contemplative's devotion to a life of prayer-and at Dachau especially, that goal does not seem inappropriate for the 20th century...
...funds-a shortage intensified by recent cutbacks in governmental grants-and proclaimed their support of Senator Warren Magnuson's bill to set up a National Institute of Marine Medicine and Pharmacology. In speech after speech they pointed out that the vast majority of all known forms of animal life are found in the sea, which they expect to yield a proportionately rich harvest of medically useful chemicals. Dr. Paul R. Burkholder, famed for his discovery of chloramphenicol* (in a Venezuelan soil mold) more than 20 years ago, prodded the pharmaceutical industry to speed up its testing of sea-spawned...
...most biologically potent chemicals so far extracted from marine life are the poisons that primitive creatures use for self-protection. That does not discourage the seagoing biologists. After all, they point out, the vegetable poison curare has proved invaluable as a muscle relaxant that is used with general anesthesia for surgery. The Japanese are already using molecular modifications of marine venoms as medicines...