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...peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books, and might have remained almost unaware of my political loyalties." Clearly he often wished that this might have happened; but in the same essay he wrote, "It is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally...
...West Berliners stepped into a city that in many ways was as strange to them as Warsaw or Moscow might be. The new showcase sections of East Berlin, with their large lifeless squares and sterile Marxist-modern, glass-sheathed buildings, impressed many of the visitors as utterly foreign. Visiting food shops and department stores, West Berliners were struck by the high prices (coffee $10 per lb., a cotton dress $38, a small refrigerator $496). Some West Berliners clearly felt a sense of unease in being surrounded by the battalions of gray-uniformed Vopos (People's Police) and green-suited...
Whether or not Mars is eventually proved lifeless, never-say-die exobiologists are looking forward to investigating Jupiter and perhaps taking another look at Venus for signs of living organisms...
Convinced by the findings of the Apollo missions that the moon is lifeless, the earth's two superpowers were concentrating on the next target of opportunity: Mars. A pair of spacecraft, America's Mariner 9 and Russia's Mars 2, were in orbit around the Red Planet, seeking out conditions and features that might support life and radioing their findings back to earth across more than 90 million miles of space. A capsule ejected from Mars 2 lay on the Martian surface, possibly equipped with instruments that could sample the soil and the atmosphere and detect the presence of life...
...Middle Ages, when it was dangerous to question Christian dogma, which held that the earth was the center of the universe and that other worlds were lifeless, the Polish astronomer Copernicus and his followers thought otherwise. Although he prudently did not publish his epic work On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies until he lay on his deathbed, Copernicus dealt the earth-centered universe of Ptolemy its final blow. After years of observations, he concluded it was the sun?and not the earth?that occupied center stage; the earth, he said, was simply one of several planets that spun around...