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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Synthetic Muscle. The fibers can be duplicated in the laboratory out of their chemical constituents, actin and myosin. When properly stimulated, the, synthetic muscles react much like the real thing. "We have reproduced, and thus made it possible to analyze, one of the most mysterious manifestations of life," says Szent-Gyorgyi. "Seeing actomyosin contract for the first time was the most exciting experience in [my] scientific career...
Whenever Roman Catholics take a public drubbing for their policy in Spain, they can retort, as the Jesuit weekly America did last spring: "Let us look at Sweden. It has an established Lutheran church, apparently unaware (like England) of the 'great Protestant principle' of separation of church and state. Without special permission of the Swedish government, the Catholic Church can own no property in Sweden, as Protestants can do in Spain ... Do American Catholics, or indeed, Swedish Catholics (5,809 in a population of 6,000,000) shout about Lutheran 'persecution' of Catholics in Sweden...
...confusion was no laughing matter. It meant that in case of an atomic bombing, or a mishap at an atomic plant, no one would be able to say just when it would be safe to send in rescue squads. Said Dr. Newell: "This is like saying you don't know whether a teaspoonful or tumblerful of poison will make a man sick...
...stadium's stars herself, carries on a private little war with the weather, and sometimes the weatherman, trying to determine whether to call a concert off or take a chance. She cheerfully admits: "It's too much of a job for an old crow like me." And then cheerfully adds that she has not the faintest notion of giving...
...Like thousands of his fellow citizens, Editor Gould had fallen for the line that China's Communists were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow. Only last month he voiced a tentative welcome to Mao Tse-tung's Communist Liberation Army as it took over Shanghai. Wrote Gould in his breezy Post: "Shanghai is essentially non-political . . . What it hopes is that a true 'liberation' has now come." It hadn't. Gould found the city's new bosses as hostile to a free press as any other Communists would...