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...Mankind's destiny is to colonize the solar system, said Professor of Applied Astronomy George B. Field yesterday at a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Space Research Group...
...connotation is appropriate, not only for the AIDS virus but for the untold number of other varieties that have been preying on animals and plants since long before Homo sapiens appeared on earth. Indeed, the current AIDS epidemic is a grim reminder that these infinitesimal, bizarre creatures may be mankind's deadliest enemy. And scientists are warning that a perennial viral threat, the upcoming flu season, could be far more dangerous than usual -- more evidence that these tiny foes are responsible for a large share of human suffering...
...Mankind has long been familiar with the ravages of viruses, if not the creatures themselves. Dried pustules on the mummified face of Ramses V testify to the fact that smallpox killed even the mighty in Egypt 3,000 years ago. In the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors may have unknowingly used viruses in a primitive form of germ warfare; they apparently supplied their intended victims, the Aztecs and the Incas, with blankets taken from houses with smallpox in Europe. Viruses helped cause a fiscal crisis in 17th century Holland, where infections of tulip bulbs produced a new variety of the flower...
...fiendish design, the highest points on earth loom tantalizingly at the limits of mankind's physiological reach. Mountaineers and M.D.s agree that above 8,000 m (26,246 ft.), a physical curtain begins to fall. Higher than this, the air is so thin that ordinary people can live for only several hours -- if at all. Trapped in the so-called death zone, says one climber who is familiar with these altitudes, "you can't shout for help anymore. You lose your sense of logic. And you die in euphoria, overestimating your own strength...
...Nobel Prize for Peace, which carries with it an award of $287,769.78. From Oslo, the Nobel Committee praised him as "one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterize the world. Wiesel is a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity...