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...papal visit to the poor and rocky island in the Tyrrhenian Sea began joyfully enough. Flying into the capital of Cagliari, Paul was welcomed by the blast of boat whistles and salvos of fresh carnations and mimosa blossoms tossed in his path. Never before had a reigning Pontiff been on the island; the last papal visitor was Pontianus, who was exiled there in A.D. 235 by the Christian-hating Emperor Maximinus Thrax...
...role of the RNA molecule in the transfer of memory and learning. The Digest later published the first complete account of the original study of memory transfer in a higher animal, the rat. It also reported the first study of behavioral changes in plants-experiments in which the tropical mimosa was actually "taught" to change its response to specific stimuli...
...true that Mrs. Jack Gardner customarily perched in the branches of a potted mimosa tree to receive her guests, or that she kept a pride of pet lions in her basement. But it is true that she paraded in elegant furs walking a lion on a leash, did Lenten penance by scrubbing the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent, and attended a concert in Symphony Hall wearing a headband emblazoned: "Oh you Red Sox." It is also true that she ardently supported the Boston Symphony, launched Critic Bernard Berenson on his career, and founded an art museum...
Gibraltar's main - and almost only -street is a delightful omnium-gatherum of the civilizations that have passed its way since Hercules rent Europe from Africa and made the Rock one of his Pillars. On the soft Mediterranean air, jasmine and mimosa mingle with the aroma of frying pescado and chips; from back alleys float shreds of flamenco music, tourist twist and the dogged strains of Methodist choir practice (Rock of Ages is a Gibraltarian favorite). Helmeted native bobbies impartially ogle vacationing English shopgirls, off-duty African belly dancers, and the Midwestern matrons among the 240,000 visitors...
...nearly 100°, and hardly a breeze stirred the mimosa trees and scrub pines that dotted the landscape near the charred church ruins. There was not much to see at the burned church site-a twisted tin roof and a blackened iron bell in the ashes. The three drove a mile down the road to the farmhouse of Junior Roosevelt Cole, 58, a Negro and lay leader of the church, who told them that on the night of the fire he was dragged from his car in the churchyard and clubbed unconscious by a mob of whites. Schwerner asked Cole...