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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge geography has always been a bit mystifying. The Charles River should be your natural point of orientation. But it meanders all over the place; it flows North to South, then East to West.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge: A City of Squares | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

The Acanthaster plague baffles scientists. It could be a periodic natural phenomenon; many species mysteriously multiply for a time, then inexplicably decline in number. A more probable explanation is that man has upset the reefs delicate ecological balance. By relentlessly hunting for a rare trumpet-shaped mollusk called the giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marine Biology: Plague in the Sea | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

The most cogent objection is to the building's location in the heart of San Francisco's "Portsmouth corridor," natural valley between Telegraph Hill and the clustered towers of lower Market Street. The valley is covered with low structures that climb up Telegraph Hill, hugging its contours and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Townscape: Needle in the Sky | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

If an extract proves to be active, the next stage of testing will be more difficult: isolating the individual ingredient responsible for the activity. Even more difficult is the task of determining the chemical identity of the isolated substance. Once that is done, it must be tested in animals to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pharmacology: Drugs from the Sea | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

Shaw the iconoclast was not exempt from the Victorian passion for theological speculation. "Mere agnosticism leads nowhere," he once wrote. "I hold as firmly as St. Thomas Aquinas that all truths, ancient or modern, are divinely inspired." Shaw believed in evolution, but was worried about the diverse effects of Darwinist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Greatest Shaw on Earth | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

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