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...deny this and say that the Mongol's sun screen is melanin, like the Negro's, but in smaller amounts. Loomis surmises that the yellow races may have developed their coloration after having gone through the white-race depigmentation phase. If migration away from the equator produces lighter skins, says Loomis, reverse migration could have the opposite effect. In the mere 10,000 to 20,000 years since relatively light-skinned Mongols crossed from Siberia to Alaska and spread southward to Tierra del Fuego, there has been a natural selection in favor of the darker-skinned Amerindians between...
...encountered rickets. The darkest-skinned young male hunters were so crippled that they could not keep up; the darkest-skinned females died in childbirth because of pelvic deformities. Those who happened to be lighter skinned, of both sexes, survived...
...food front, the slogan is "calories do count, but people don't." This principle is supported by the Chinese Air Force diet-popularly known as "The Sinkiang Man's Diet"-which was first developed in the "Mao Clinic" and was tested by the 19,007th Lighter than Air Fighter Squadron (otherwise known as the "Flying Paper Tigers"). It offers recipes for such dishes as "True Way to Marxist Contentment Soup," and "Sweet and Rotten Pork," all of which consist of rice, fish heads (if available) and radishes. If faithfully followed, the regimen is guaranteed to eliminate not only...
...EGYPT lost at least three-quarters of its air force, 750 of its 1,000 tanks and enormous quantities of lighter vehicles, weapons and ammunition. A massive Russian airlift-up to 75 Antonov-12 transports a day land at the Cairo airport-has already replaced some of the losses, bringing in an estimated 150 crated jets and a variety of halftracks and trucks. Even if the airlift were main tained at its present rate, it would take at least a year to replace all the equipment that was destroyed or abandoned in the war-and the Russians do not seem...
...victory over Vesper was anything but boring. It was anything but easy, too. Rowing at a beat of 50 strokes a minute, the lighter (by 7 Ibs. per man) Vesper crew sprinted into the lead at the start, stayed there until midway through the 2,000-meter race. Finally, Harvard's weight and strength began to tell. Stroking at a steady 36, the powerful Crimson boat edged alongside, fought off still another Vesper sprint, and drew out to win by 1 ½ lengths. And so back to the stadium they went, but this time they got a break-they...